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PUBLIC LAW 91-575-DEC. 24, 1970
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The provisions of this compact and of agreements thereunder shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of the Susquehanna River Basin Compact or such agreement is declared to be unconstitutional or the applicability thereof to any signatory party, agency, or person is held invalid, the constitutionality of the remainder of such compact or such agreement and the applicability thereof to any other signatory party, agency, person, or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. I t is the legislative intent that the provisions of such compact, be reasonably and liberally construed. "15.22—EFFECTIVE D A T E; EXECUTION. This compact shall become binding and effective thirty days after the enactment of concurring legislation by the Federal government, the states of Maryland and Xew York, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The compact shall be signed and sealed in five identical original copies by the respective chief executive of the signatory parties. One such copy shall be filed with the Secretary of State of each of the signatory parties or in accordance with the laws of the state in which the filing is made, and one copy shall be filed and retained in the archives of the commission upon its organization." "15.21—CONSTRUCTION AND SEVEKABILTTY.
RESERVATIONS
SEC. 2. In the exercise of the powers reserved to the Congress, pursuant to section 1.4 of the compact, the consent to and participation ^"'e» P« ^^iz. in the compact by the United States is subject to the following conditions and reservations: (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the Susquehanna Eiver Project plans. Basin compact the Susquehanna River Basin Commission shall not l^eTs. ^ ° ^ "" undertake any project (as defined in such compact), other than a project for which State supplied funds only will be used, beyond the planning stage until— (1) such commission has submitted to the Congress such complete plans and estimates for such project as may be necessary to make an engineering evaluation of such project including— (A) where the project will serve more than one purpose, an allocation of costs among the purposes served and an estimate of the ratio of benefits to costs for each such purpose. (B) an apportionment of costs among the beneficiaries of the project, including the portion of the costs to be borne by the Federal Government and by State and local governments, and (C) a proposal for financing the project, including the terms of any proposed bonds or other evidences of indebtedness to be used for such purpose, and (2) such project has been authorized by Act of Congress: Provided, That when a project has been authorized by Congress, such additional or changed uses of storage therein as the commission may desire shall require project reauthorization, with reallocation of project costs to all project purposes served. (b) No provision of section 3.9 of the compact shall be deemed to drawal or diver^ ^^'^ *^' authorize the commission to impose any charge for water withdrawals 510^ c h a r g e s, on charged, ohlbition. or diversions from the basin if such withdrawals or diversions could prohibition 1516. Ante, p. lawfully have been made without charge on the effective date of the compact or to impose any charges with respect to commercial navigation within the basin, jurisdiction over which is reserved to the Federal Government: Provided, That this paragraph shall be applicable to the extent not inconsistent with section 1.4 of this compact.
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