V-194 



OBJECTIONS TO PROPOSED COMPACTS 



A number of Federal agencies have voiced objections to certain 

 features in the Susquehanna compact. As stated in WRC Agenda 

 Memorandum #2, prepared for the Water Resources Council, these 

 agencies are objecting to: 



(1) Voting and other provisions that could be used to 

 adversely affect the duties and responsibilities of 

 Federal agencies under the Federal statutes defining 

 their respective missions. 



(2) The provision that the Federal member on the compact 

 agency is to be ". . . the direct representative of the 

 President. . . " The Federal agencies object to this 

 because the States reportedly have indicated this wording 

 would mean that no Federal agency would be authorized to 

 guide the decisions of the Federal member and, further, 

 that this member could disregard the wishes of the Cabinet 

 officers directing the Federal departments dealing with 

 water resources. 



(3) The absence of safeguards giving assurance that the 

 action of Federal licensing and regulatory agencies would 

 prevail, in the event of conflict or confusion resulting 

 from the exercise by the compact agency of comoarable 

 powers vested in it by the compact. 



