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Delaware River Basin Water Commission Compact (Consolidated Laws of New York: Environmental Conservation Law; Article 21 Pollution Control Compacts; Title 17)

País/Territorio
Estados Unidos de América
Subdivisión territorial
New York
Tipo de documento
Legislación
Fecha
1909 (2019)
Fuente
FAO, FAOLEX
Materia
Pesca, Agua
Palabra clave
Pesca continental Acuerdo subnacional Manejo de recursos hídricos Humedales Institución de cuenca Zona de conservación de aguas Uso sostenible Abastecimiento de agua Uso industrial del agua Salud pública Contaminación de las aguas dulces Control de la contaminación Normas sobre calidad del agua Navegación Inundación Producción de energía hidroeléctrica
Área geográphica
Americas, Ártico, Pacífico Oriental, América del Norte, Atlántico Norte
Resumen

This Title of the Environmental Conservation Law of New York New adopts the Delaware River Basin Water Commission Compact. It provides that there is created hereby a body corporate and politic with perpetual succession, to be known as The Delaware River Basin Water Commission, which shall constitute a public corporate instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and of the States of New Jersey and New York, (and of the State of Delaware if and when Delaware becomes a signatory State), and of each of them, to exercise an essential governmental function of each of the signatory States, for the purposes of developing, utilizing, controlling, and conserving the water resources of the Delaware River Basin in order to assure an adequate water supply: (a) to meet the domestic and industrial requirements of political subdivisions and metropolitan areas within those States; (b) to provide an adequate minimum flow in the Delaware River for the protection of public health, for the benefit of industry and of fisheries, such as oysters, clams, and other shellfish, for animal and aquatic life, for recreation, for general sanitary conditions, for the dilution and abatement of pollution, and for the prevention of undue salinity; and (c) to provide for such other uses of water as navigation, flood control, production of hydro-electric power, and related uses.

Texto completo
Inglés
Página web
public.leginfo.state.ny.us