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478 Ohio River Basin.-Two programs of development for the Ohio River Basin should be noted. These are the flood-control programs of the Army Engineers and the recent pollution-con- trol program of the Ohio River Valley Sanitation Commission. In 1936, Congress approved the Army Engineer "308 Report" for the Ohio River.390 Two years later, it approved a "general comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes in the Ohio River Basin."391 In 1936, Congress granted its consent to the States in the Ohio River Basin to enter into an interstate compact for pollu- tion control.892 Congress approved the negotiated compact in 1940.393 The compact created an Ohio River Valley Sanitation Commission consisting of three Commissioners representing each signatory State and three representing the United States.394 The Commission was directed to "make a comprehensive report for the prevention and reduction of stream pollution" in the Sanitation District created by the compact.895 It is also empowered to recommend uniform legislation deal- ing with pollution problems of the District, to consult with and advise the States, and to issue orders upon "any munici- pality, corporation, person or other entity discharging sewage or industrial waste" into the Ohio or certain other interstate streams.396 Such an order to be effective must receive the 890 Act of June 22,1936, § 5, 49 Stat. 1570,1586; H. Doc. No. 306, 74th Cong., 1st sess. (1936). In addition to the "308 Report," a flood-control survey had been authorized by the Act of May 15, 1928, § 10, 45 Stat. 534, 538. 891 Act of June 28, 1938, § 4, 52 Stat. 1215, 1217; Com. Doc. No. 1, House Committee on Flood Control, 75th Cong., 1st sess. (1937). This plan was approved with "such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secre- tary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable." It has since been amended and supplemented. Act of August 11,1939, § 4, 53 Stat. 1414; Act of August 18,1941, § 3, 55 Stat. 638, 646; Act of December 22, 1944, § 10, 58 Stat. 887, 898; Act of July 24,1946, § 10, 60 Stat. 641, 649; Act of June 30, 1948, § 203, 62 Stat. 1171, 1177; Act of May 17, 1950, § 204, 64 Stat. 163, -. In addition to this, a "comprehensive" plan for the Cumberland River was approved in the Act of July 24, 1946, § 1, 60 Stat. 634, 636. See H. Doc. No. 761, 79th Cong., 2d sess. (1946). 892 H. J. Res. 377 of June 8,1936, 49 Stat. 1490. 893 Act of July 11, 1940, 54 Stat. 752. 8MArts. Ill, IV, 54 Stat. 753. 895 Art. VIII, 54 Stat. 754. m Arts. VIII, IX, 54 Stat. 754, 755.

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