Interstate Environment Compact: Hearings Before...91-2, on S. 907, April 19 and 20, 1971

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Page 37 - The consent of the Congress is hereby given to two or more States to negotiate and enter into agreements or compacts, not in conflict with any law or treaty of the United States, for (1) cooperative effort and mutual assistance for the prevention and control of...
Page 37 - States for the prevention and control of pollution. (b) The consent of the Congress is hereby given to two or more States to negotiate and enter into agreements or compacts, not in conflict with...
Page 68 - SEC. 3. (a) The Surgeon General shall encourage cooperative activities by the States for the prevention and control of water pollution; encourage the enactment of improved and, so far as practicable, uniform State laws relating to the prevention and control of water pollution ; and encourage compacts between States for the prevention and control of water pollution.
Page 69 - Order 11507 to .further the purposes of the Clean Air Act, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act.
Page 49 - Act is administered by the Wage and Hour Division of the US Department of Labor.
Page 6 - State and local governments, and other concerned public and private organizations, to use all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, in a manner calculated to foster and promote the general welfare, to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony, and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans.
Page 10 - STATEMENT OF HON. LAWTON CHILES, A US SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA Senator CHILES. Thank you, sir.
Page 37 - ... the establishment of such agencies, joint or otherwise, as they may deem desirable for making effective such agreements and compacts.

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