An Act to designate the comprehensive Missouri River Basin development program as the Pick Sloan Missouri Basin program
PL 91-576 (S.1100), enacted 12/24/1970

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PUBLIC LAW 91-576-DEC. 24, 1970 
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to require the United States to furnish administrative services or 
facilities for carrying out functions of the commission except to the 
extent that the President may direct. 
(w) Nothing contained in this Act or in the compact shall super-
sede, impair, affect, compel, or prevent the exercise of any of the 
powers, rights, functions, or jurisdiction of the Federal Power Com-
mission, Federal Communications Commission, Atomic Energy Com-
mission, Interstate Commerce Commission, or other such Federal 
independent regulatory agency under existing or future legislation. 
Accordingly, no action of the Susquehanna Eiver Basin Commission 
shall conflict with any of the terms or conditions of any license or 
permit granted or issued by the aforementioned Federal agencies. This 
reservation shall not be construed as a basis for noncompliance with 
the requirements of the compact or this Act; nor shall it be construed 
to permit use of waters of the Susquehanna River Basin or to endanger 
their quality without approval pursuant to the compact. 
EFFECTUATION 
SEC. 3. (a) The President is authorized to take such action as may 
be necessary and proper, in his discretion, to effectuate the com-
pact and the initial organization and operation of the commission 
thereunder. 
(b) Executive departments and other agencies of the executive 
branch of the Federal Government shall cooperate with and furnish 
appropriate assistance to the United States member. Such assistance 
shall include the furnishing of services and facilities and may include 
the detailing of personnel to the United States member. Appropria- 
Appropriation. 
tions are hereby authorized as necessary for the support of the United 
States member and his office, including appropriations for the employ-
ment of personnel by the United States member. 
Approved December 24, 1970. 
Public Law 91-576 
AN ACT 
December 24,1970 
To designate the comprehensive Missouri River Basin development program as 
[s. iioo] 
the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program. 
Pick-Sloan 
Missouri Basin 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the comprehen- ^ ^^ 
sive program of flood control, navigation improvement, and develop- program 
ment for the Missouri Kiver Basin, which arose out of the coordination 
Designation 
of the multiple-purpose plans recommended in the report of the Corps 
of Engineers, United States Army, contained in House Document 
Numbered 475, Seventy-eighth Congress, and in the report of the 
Bureau of Eeclamation, Department of the Interior, contained in Sen-
ate Document Numbered 191, Seventy-eighth Congress, shall hereafter 
be known as the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin pro-am. Any law, regula-
tion, document, or record of the United States in which such program 
is designated or referred to under the name of the Missouri River 
Basin development program, or under any other name, shall be held 
and considered to refer to such program under and by the name of the 
Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program. 
Approved December 24, 1970.