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should, the compact Instrument play a significant part In this 

 emerging program? The answer to this second question Is "yes," 

 If two conditions are met. 



First, If a compact is proposed for more than the performance of 

 service functions, the States must In fact give their joint agency 

 authority and resources sufficient to enable It to override each 

 State's prerogative Independently to make and carry out its own 

 policies in its own portion of the estuary. Put differently, this 

 condition requires that the authority and resources given to a 

 compact agency be commensurate with its basic mission. If that 

 mission is regulatory in the sense that the agency is to develop 

 the basic policies that are to govern the management of a particu- 

 lar estuary, then the decisions of the comoact agency must be 

 binding and preclude any signatory from administering less restric- 

 tive management policies. There also must be a means of avoiding 

 deadlocks between the signatories which stall needed decisions, 

 and of compelling the agency to make those decisions. The latter 

 is especially essential in situations where differences in State 

 views concerning policy in the estuary reflect very fundamental 

 conflicts among tJifferent uses of estuarine resources. 



Similarly, if the basic mission of the compact agency also Includes 

 the implementation and enforcement of these basic policies, then 

 its authority (1) must not be subject to the veto of a single 

 State, (2) should include all of the usual legal oowers employed 



