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water allocation compact 1s probably the best example of this 

 type of accomplishment. Among compacts more directly Involved 

 In estuarlne management, the best example Is the Tri-State com- 

 pact, which creates the Interstate Sanitation Commission. Here 

 the compact Itself specifies the type of waste treatment each 

 signatory will require for each of certain classifications of 

 water use. 



Under the second form, the compact itself does not express the 

 basic policy agreement among the signatories. Instead, each 

 State 1n the compact agrees to be bound by the policy decisions 

 which the States collectively will reach within the framework 

 of the compact agency. Examples are the Delaware River Basin 

 Commission 1n its decision on water quality standards for the 

 Delaware River and In the policies 1t applied to the recent 

 drought emergency In that basin. Also Illustrative are the 

 policies adopted by the Potomac River Fisheries Commission to 

 regulate fishing 1n the waters under Its jurisdiction. 



In either form, th^s accomplishment effectively achieves program 

 coordination between the signatories to the compact, perhaps In 

 the only sure way possible short of transferring the resoons1b1l1 

 ty for coordination to a higher level of government. 



