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469 merits of the four Delaware River Basin States. The agreement declares that the four States "agree and are bound/' that each "pledges to each of the other signatory States faithful cooper- ation in the control of future pollution and in the correction of existing pollution," and that each "agrees to enact adequate legislation, if necessary." The legislation then says that the "reciprocal agreement" is "hereby ratified and applied to the waters and watershed of said Delaware River Basin within the territorial limits of this State." The foregoing agreement contains no reference to the Com- pact Clause of the Constitution, nor has it received specific consent of Congress. However, it might be argued that such an agreement comes within the compass of the provision in the 1911 Weeks Law granting blanket consent of Congress for in- terstate compacts "for the purpose of conserving the forests and the water supply of the States" entering into such a compact.351 These Acts also declared: 852 That part of the area of the Delaware River Basin lying within this State is hereby established and de- clared to be a component part of an interstate region for intergovernmental cooperation by said states in the conservation, protection and development of the water resources thereof by means of integrated plans * * *. The New York legislation enacts the substance of the uni- form act, but does not purport to ratify any agreement. How- ever, it empowers its Department of Health to execute an agreement with the appropriate agencies of the other States and to apply to Congress for its consent to such agreement "in accordance with" the Compact Clause of the Constitution.358 The New York Act recognizes Incodel as the "agency of this state" for the attainment of intergovernmental cooperation cor- recting pollution, as does the legislation of the other States.354 881 Act of March 1,1011, § 1, 36 Stat. 961,16 U. S. O. 552. 882 Laws of Delaware, 1941, ch. 93, § 1; New Jersey Laws, 1939, ch. 146, § 1; Laws of Pennsylvania, 1945, No. 123, § 1. m Laws of New Yobk, 1939, ch. 600, f § 2,11. 884 § 1.

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