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states and as parties thereto, in addition to tlie 

 States which have now ratified the compact. 



Sec. 3. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Com- 

 mission constituted by the compact shall make an 

 annual report to Congress not later than sixty days 

 after the beginning of each regular session tliereof . 

 Such report shall set forth the activities of the 

 Commission during the calendar year ending im- 

 mediately prior to the beginning of such session. 



Sec 4. The right to alter, amend, or repeal the 

 provisions of sections 1, 2 and 3 is hereby expressly 

 reserved. 



Approved, May 4, 1942. 



P.L. 81-721, Act of August 19, 1950, Ch. 763, 

 64 Stat. 467 



AN ACT 



Granting the con.sent and approval of Congress to an 

 amendment to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries 

 Compact, and repealing the limitation on the life of 

 such compact. 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Rep- 

 resentatives of the United States of America in 

 Congress assembled. That the coiisent and ap- 

 proval of Congress is hereby given to an amend- 

 ment to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Com- 

 pact, as consented to in Public Law 539, Seventy- 

 seventh Congress (56 Stat. 267) , which amendment 

 has now been ratified by the States of Maine, New 

 Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Permsyl- 

 vania, and North Carolina and reads substantially 

 as follows: 



"AMENDMENT NUMBER 1 



"The States consenting to this amendment agree 

 that any two or more of them may designate the 

 Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission as a 

 Joint regulatory agency with such powers as they 

 may Jointly confer from time to time for the regu- 

 lation of the fishing operations of the citizens and 

 vessels of such designating States with respect to 



specific fisheries In which such States have a 

 common Interest. The representatives of such 

 States on the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries 

 Commission shall constitute a separate section of 

 such Commission for the exercise of the additional 

 powers so granted provided that the States so act- 

 ing shall appropriate additional funds for this pur- 

 pose. The creation of such section as a Joint 

 regulatory agency shall not deprive the States par- 

 ticipating therein of any of their privileges or 

 powers or responsibilities In the Atlantic States 

 Marine Fisheries Commission under the general 

 compact." 



Sec. 2. VVithout further .submission of such 

 amendment to the Atlantic Statv.s Marine Fisheries 

 Compact, the consent and approval of Congress is 

 hereby given to the States ol Connecticut, New 

 York, New Jer.'^ey, Delaware, Marykuid, Virginia, 

 South Carolina. Georgia. ;uid Florida, now parties 

 to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact, 

 and to the State of Vermont when it shall enter 

 such compact for the purpose of the better utiliza- 

 tion of its auadromous fisheries, to enter into such 

 amendment aa signatory States and as parties 

 thereto, in addition to the States which have now 

 ratuied the amendment. 



Sec 3. The first section of Public Law 539 of the 

 Seventy-seventh Congress (56 Stat. 267) is hereby 

 amended by striking out "(which shall be operative 

 for not more than fifteen years from the date of 

 the enactment of tliis Act) ": Provided, That noth- 

 ing in this compact shall be construed to limit or 

 add to the powers or the proprietary interest of any 

 signatorj' State or to repeal or prevent the enact- 

 ment of any legislation or the enforcement of any 

 requirement by a signatoi-y State imposing addi- 

 tional conditions and restrictions to conserve its 

 fisheries. 



Sec 4. Tlie right to alter, amend, pr repeal the 

 provisions of this Act is hereby expressly reserved. 



Approved August 19, 1950. 



2. Great Lakes Basin Compact 

 P.L. 90-419 



P.L. 90-419, Act of July 24, 196S, 82 Stat. 414 



AN ACT 



Granting the consent of Congress to a Great Lakes Basin 

 Compact, and for other purposes. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- 

 resentatives of the United States of America in 

 Congress assembled. That the consent of Congress 

 is hereby given, to the extent and subject to the 

 conditions hereinafter set forth, to the Great Lakes 

 Basin Compact which has been entered into by the 

 States of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, 

 New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin In 

 the form as follows: 



"GREAT LAKES BASIN COMPACT 

 "The party states solemnly agree; 



"ARTICtE I 



"The purposes of this compact are, through 

 means of joint or cooperative action: 



"1. To promote the orderly, Integra'.od, and com- 

 prehensive development, use, and conservation of 

 the water resources of the Great Lakes Basin (here- 

 inafter called the Basin) . 



"2. To plan for the welfare and development of 

 the water resources of the Basin as a w^hole as well 

 as for those portions of the Basin which may have 

 problems of special concern. 



"3. To make It possible for the states of the Basin 

 and their people to derive the maximum benefit 

 from utilization of public works, In the form of 

 navigational aids or otherwise, which may exist or 

 which may be constructed from time to time. 



"4. To advise In securing and maintaining a pro- 

 per balance among industrial, commercial, agrl- 



