An Act to consent to the amendment of the Pacific Marine Fisheries Compact
PL 91-315 (H.R.13407), enacted 07/10/1970

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PUBLIC LAW 91-315-JULY 10, 1970 
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Public Law 91-315 
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To consent to the amendment of the Pacific Marine Fisheries Compact. 
[H. R. 13407] 
Pacific Marine 
Fisheries Compact, 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asseTnbled, That the consent of 
the Congress is hereby given to the amendments to articles I, II, IV, amendment. 
and X of the Pacific Marme Fisheries Compact, as amended. 
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SEC. 2. Article I of the Pacific Marine Fisheries Compact, as 6i^stat.'4i9 
amended, would read substantially as follows: 
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"ARTICLE I 
"The purposes of this compact are and shall be to promote the better 
utilization of fisheries, marine, shell and anadromous, which are of 
mutual concern, and to develop a joint program of protection and pre-
vention of physical waste of such fisheries in all of those areas of the 
Pacific Ocean and adjacent waters over which the compacting States 
jointly or separately now have or may hereafter acquire jurisdiction. 
"Nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to authorize the 
compacting States or any of them to limit the production of fish or 
fish products for the purpose of establishing or fixing the prices thereof 
or creating and perpetuating a monopoly." 
SEC, 3. Article I I of the Pacific Marine Fisheries Compact, as 
amended, would substantially read as follows: 
"ARTICLE I I 
"This agreement shall become operative immediately as to those 
States executing it whenever two or more of the compacting States 
have executed it in the form that is in accordance with the laws of the 
executing States and the Congress has given its consent." 
SEC. 4. Article IV of the Pacific Marine Fisheries Compact, as 
amended, would read substantially as follows: 
"ARTICLE 
IV 
"The duty of the said commission shall be to make inquiry and ascer-
tain from time to time such methods, practices, circumstances and con-
ditions as may be disclosed for bringing about the conservation and the 
prevention of the depletion and physical waste of the fisheries, marine, 
shell and anadromous, in all of those areas of the Pacific Ocean over 
which the States signatory to this compact jointly or separately now 
have or may hereafter acquire jurisdiction. Tlie commission shall have 
power to recommend the coordination of the exercise of the police pow-
ers of the several States within their respective jurisdictions and said 
conservation zones to promote the preservation of those fisheries and 
their protection against over-fishing, waste, depletion, or any abuse 
whatsoever and to assure a continuing yield from the fisheries resources 
of the signatory parties hereto. 
"To that end the commission shall draft and, after consultation with 
the advisory committee hereinafter authorized, recommend to the 
Governors and legislative branches of the various signatory States 
hereto legislation dealing with the conservation of the marine, shell 
and anadromous fisheries in all of those areas of the Pacific Ocean 
over which the signatory States jointly or separately now have or may 
hereafter acquire jurisdiction. The commission shall, more than one 
month prior to any regular meeting of the legislative branch in any 
State signatory hereto, present to the Governor of such State its 
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recommendations relating to enactments by the legislative branch of 
that State in furthering the intents and purposes of this compact. 
"The commission shall consult with and advise the pertinent admin-
istrative agencies in the signatory States with regard to problems 
connected with the fisheries and recommend the adoption of such regu-
lations as it deems advisable and which lie within the jurisdiction of 
such agencies. 
"The commission shall have power to recommend to the States sig-
natory hereto the stocking of the waters of such States with marine, 
shell, or anadromous fish and fish eggs or joint stocking by some or 
all of such States, and, when two or more of the said States shall jointly 
stock waters, the commission shall act as the coordinating agency for 
such stocking." 
SEC. 5. Article X of the Pacific Marine Fisheries Compact, as 
amended, would read substantially as follows: 
"ARTICLE X 
"The States agree to make available annual funds for the support of 
the Commission on the following basis: 
"Eighty percent (80%) of the annual budget shall be shared equally 
by those member States having as a boundary the Pacific Ocean; and 
five percent (5%) of the annual budget shall be contributed by any 
other member State; the balance of the annual budget shall be shared 
by those member States, having as a boundary the Pacific Ocean, in 
proportion to the primary market value of the products of their com-
mercial fisheries on the basis of the latest five-year catch records. 
"The annual contribution of each member State shall be figured 
to the nearest one hundred dollars. 
"This amended article shall become effective upon its enactment by 
the States of Alaska, California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington 
and upon ratification by Congress by virtue of the authority vested 
in it under Article I, section 10, of the Constitution of the United 
States." 
SEC. 6. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is expressly 
reserved. 
Approved July 10, 1970. 
Public Law 91-316 
AN ACT 
July 10, 1970 
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To extend the Clean Air Act, as amended, and the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as 
amended, for a period of sixty days. 
Be it enacted, hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
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United States of America in Congress a^sembled^ That pending exten-
posai Act' amend- sious by Act of Congress of the Clean Air Act and Solid Waste 
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Disposal Act, the authorizations contained in sections 104(c) and 309 
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Clean Air Act, as amended, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
42 use 1857b-1, 1970, and the authorization contained in section 210 of the Solid Waste 
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Disposal Act, as amended, for the fiscal year ending: June 30, 1970, 
shall remain available through August 31, 1970, notwithstanding 
any provisions of those sections. 
Approved July 10, 1970. 
Clean Air Act; 
Solid Waste Dis 
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