A bill granting the consent of Congress to an amendment to the Wheeling Creek Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention District Compact entered into by the States of West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
PL 98-420 (H.R.5177), enacted 09/25/1984

PUBLIC LAW 98-420—SEPT. 25, 1984 
98 STAT. 1611 
Public Law 98-420 
98th Congress 
An Act 
Real property. 
Personal 
property. 
Granting the consent of Congress to an amendment to the Wheeling Creek Water- 
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shed Protection and Flood Prevention District Compact entered into by the States 
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of West Virginia and Pennsylvania. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of 
Congress is given to an amendment to the Wheeling Creek Water-
shed Protection and Flood Prevention District Compact entered into 
by the States of West Virginia and Pennsylvania and consented to 
by Congress by the Act of December 8, 1967 (81 Stat. 553), which 
amendment adds at the end of article VI of such compact the 
81 Stat. 555. 
following: 
"(i) The commission, subject to the conditions herein, may sell, 
exchange or lease property, real or personal, or any interest therein. 
"When the property, or any interest or right therein, is being held 
for future use, it may be leased. When the real property, or any part 
thereof, or any interest or right therein, is deemed by the commis-
sion not necessary, or desirable for present or presently foreseeable 
future use, it may be exchanged for other property, or any interest 
or right therein, deemed by the commission to he necessary or 
desirable for present or presently foreseeable future use, or may be 
sold. In addition the commission may exchange real property, or any 
part thereof, or any interest or right therein, even though it may be 
desirable or necessary for present or presently foreseeable future 
use, if the exchange is made for other real property, or any interest 
or right therein, in close proximity thereto which the commission 
deems of equal or superior value for presently foreseeable future 
use. In making exchanges the commission may make allowances for 
differences in values of the properties being exchanged and may 
move or pay the cost of moving buildings, structures, or appurte-
nances in connection with the exchange. 
"Every such sale of real property, or any interest or right therein 
or structure thereon, shall be at public auction in the county in 
which the real property, or the greater part thereof in value, is 
located, and the commission shall advertise, by publication or other-
wise, the time, place and terms of such sale at least twenty days 
prior thereto. The property shall be sold in the manner which will 
bring the highest and best price therefor. The commission may 
reject any and all bids received at the sale. The commission shall 
keep a record, open to public inspection, indicating the manner in 
which such real property or any interest or right therein or struc-
ture thereon, was publicly advertised for sale, the highest bid re-
ceived therefor and from whom the person to whom sold, and 
payment received therefor. Such record shall be kept for a period of 
five years and may thereafter be destroyed. 
"The commission may insert in a deed or conveyance, whether it 
involves an exchange, lease or sale, such conditions as are in the 
public interest. 
Public auction. 
Public 
availability. 
98 STAT. 1612 
PUBLIC LAW 98-420—SEPT. 25, 1984 
Funds. 
"AH moneys received from the exchange, sale or lease of real or 
personal property, or any right or interest therein, shall be paid into 
the commission's treasury and used for the purpose for which the 
commission was created. 
"If the commission has heretofore sold and conveyed away or 
leased any such property, such transaction and the documents of 
lease or transfer therefor are hereby approved and confirmed and 
shall be as effective as if the authority to lease or convey the said 
property had been given in this statute as originally enacted.". 
Approved September 25, 1984. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 5177: 
HOUSE REPORT No. 98-821 (Comm. on the Judiciary). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 130 (1984): 
June 18, considered and passed House. 
Sept. 10, considered and passed Senate.