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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)

Pays/Territoire
États-Unis d'Amérique
Sous-division territoriale
New York
Type du document
Législation
Date
1909 (2019)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Sujet
Pêche, Eau
Mot clé
Pêche continentale Accord sous-national Gestion des resources en eau douce Zones humides Institution de bassin Zone de conservation des eaux Utilisation durable Approvisionnement en eau Eau à usage industriel Santé publique Pollution des eaux douces Lutte contre la pollution Normes de qualité de l'eau Navigation Inondation Production d'énergie hydroélectrique
Aire géographique
Amériques, Arctique, Pacifique du Est, Amérique du Nord, Atlantique Nord
Résumé

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.

Texte intégral
Anglais
Site web
public.leginfo.state.ny.us