§ 21-1701. The Delaware river basin water commission compact approved.\n The authority of the Governor to enter into a compact on behalf of the\nstate of New York with the states of Delaware and New Jersey and the\ncommonwealth of Pennsylvania in substantially the following form, which\nauthority was first conferred by chapter 701 of the laws of 1952, is\nhereby continued:\n COMPACT\n BETWEEN THE STATES OF DELAWARE, NEW JERSEY\n AND NEW YORK AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF\n PENNSYLVANIA CREATING THE DELAWARE\n RIVER BASIN WATER COMMISSION AND\n DEFINING ITS POWERS AND DUTIES\n Whereas, the peoples of the States of Delaware, New Jersey, and New\nYork and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have a common interest in the\nwaters of the Delaware River Basin; and\n Whereas, it is desirable that the water and water resources of the\nDelaware River and its tributaries be developed, utilized, controlled,\nand conserved for the benefit of all the people; and\n Whereas, the United States Supreme Court, in its decision in the\nDelaware River Case (283 U.S. 336), established the principle of\nequitable apportionment of the waters of the upper Delaware River Basin;\nand\n Whereas, political subdivisions and metropolitan areas in the States\nof New Jersey and New York and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have\nbeen confronted constantly with the problem of meeting existing and\nprospective requirements of the people within their respective areas for\nobtaining and maintaining an adequate and satisfactory supply of water,\nboth for domestic and industrial purposes; and\n Whereas, it is essential that there be maintained an adequate minimum\nflow in the Delaware River for the protection of public health, for the\nbenefit of industry and of fisheries, such as oysters, clams and other\nshellfish, for animal and aquatic life, for recreation, for general\nsanitary conditions, for the dilution and abatement of pollution, and\nfor the prevention of undue salinity; and\n Whereas, for the purpose of promoting interstate cooperation in\nvarious fields of governmental operations, including the utilization,\ncontrol and conservation of water resources of interstate river systems,\nthe States of Delaware, New Jersey, and New York and the Commonwealth of\nPennsylvania each has created and now maintains a Commission (or\nCommittee) on Interstate Cooperation, which Commissions have jointly\norganized and established and are now maintaining, in cooperation with\neach of the others, a joint advisory board known as "The Interstate\nCommission on the Delaware River Basin" for the purpose, among other\nactivities, of formulating and recommending integrated programs for the\ndevelopment, utilization, control and conservation of the water\nresources of the Delaware River Basin; and\n Whereas, upon the recommendation of the said Interstate Commission on\nthe Delaware River Basin, submitted through the Commission on Interstate\nCooperation of each of the States concerned, the legislatures of the\nStates of New Jersey and New York and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,\nby reciprocal legislation, enacted laws at their 1949 Sessions (New\nJersey Laws of 1949, Chap. 105; New York Laws of 1949, Chap. 610;\nPennsylvania Laws of 1949, Act 475), authorizing and directing the said\nInterstate Commission on the Delaware River Basin to make surveys and\ninvestigations to determine and report on the feasibility and\nadvisability of the future construction of an integrated water project\ndesigned, among other purposes, to meet the combined prospective water\nsupply requirements of political subdivisions and metropolitan areas in\nthe said States, both within and outside the said Basin, empowering such\nCommission to enter upon lands, structures, and waters for the purposes\nof such surveys and investigations, making an appropriation to such\nCommission, and requi
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