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Ohio River Commission 



Source of Information: E.A. Joering, The Ohio River Basin Commission: 

 How to Manage a River Basin Without Threatening or Expanding Existing 

 Authorities, American Water Resources Association [get proper reference]. 

 May 1980. 



The Ohio River Basin includes eleven states (Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, 

 Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvaiua, Termessee, 

 Virginia, West Virgiiua). There are ten Federal agencies with 

 responsibilities that involve them in dedsiorunaking related to the basin 

 (Agriculture, Army, Commerce, Energy, Environmental Protection 

 Agency, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Health and Human 

 Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Transportation). 

 There is also an interstate entity, the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation 

 Commission (ORANSCO) that oversees much of the effort to abate 

 municipal and industrial pollution along the river. 



The present Conunission is an outgrowth of a comprehensive study, 

 begun in 1962, which was overseen by a coordinating committee chaired 

 by the Corps of Engineers. This $5,000,000 study assessed the problems 

 existing and anticipated through the year 2020 and identified potential 

 solutions. One of the conclusions of this study was that a permanent 

 organization should be formed that would allow committee members to 

 work together in a coordinated fashion to plan for the use of the basin's 

 water and related land resources. The Ohio River Basin Commission was 



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