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and management of the basin's water and related land resources. This 

 coordination would be achieved principally through a comprehensive 

 water resources plan -- which would be an expression of basinwide 

 goals, standards, objectives, programs, and projects -- to be adopted, 

 and revised as appropriate, by the compact agency; and through the 

 water resources program, which the compact agency would be required 

 to adopt annually as a statement of how the comprehensive water 

 resources plan would be implemented by the signatories, the commis- 

 sion, and others. 



The third broad function proposed for the agencv is to construct and 

 operate necessary projects and facilities, or to undertake other 

 desirable activities, when no other governmental agency or nongovern- 

 mental entity does so, or when the signatory parties decide that the 

 compact agency is the most appropriate entity to do so. 



Although substantially similar, the Potomac compact differs in that 

 it would also extend the agency's authority to the preservation and 

 promotion of, in the words of the compact, "... the aesthetic 

 and other values inherent in the historic, scenic, and environmental 

 amenities . . ." of the Potomac River Basin. The Susquehanna compact, 

 in other words, is more strictly confined to the management of water 

 resources. 



If the new Potomac compact is enacted, the new basin agency would 

 absorb the present Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin. 



