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Great Lakes Basin Compact (Ohio Revised Code: Title 61 Water Supply, Sanitation, And Ditches; Chapter 6161)

Pays/Territoire
États-Unis d'Amérique
Sous-division territoriale
Ohio
Type du document
Législation
Date
2018
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Sujet
Eau
Mot clé
Accord sous-national Eaux superficielles Eaux continentales Zone de conservation des eaux Bassin/captage/bassin versant Gestion des resources en eau douce Ouvrages Navigation Eau à usage industriel Approvisionnement en eau Gouvernance Institution
Aire géographique
Amériques, Arctique, Pacifique du Est, Amérique du Nord, Atlantique Nord
Résumé

This Chapter of the Ohio Revised Code adopts the Great Lakes Basin Compact entered into the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The purposes of this Compact are, through means of joint or co-operative action: (A) To promote the orderly, integrated, and comprehensive development, use, and conservation of the water sources of the great lakes basin (hereinafter called the basin); (B) To plan for the welfare and development of the water resources of the basin as a whole, as well as for those portions of the basin which may have problems of special concern; (C) To make it possible for the states of the basin and their people to derive the maximum benefit from utilization of public works, in the form of navigational aids or otherwise, which may exist or which may be constructed from time to time; (D) To advise in securing and maintaining a proper balance among industrial, commercial, agricultural, water supply, residential, recreational, and other legitimate uses of the water resources of the basin; (E) To establish and maintain an intergovernmental agency to the end that the purposes of this compact may be accomplished more effectively.

Texte intégral
Anglais
Site web
codes.ohio.gov