SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                        795

5.    "Facility" shall mean any real or personal property, within
or without the basin, and improvements thereof or thereon, and
any and all rights of way, water, water rights, plants, structures,
machinery, and equipment acquired, constructed, operated, or main-
tained for the beneficial use of water resources or related land
uses or otherwise including, without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, any and all things and appurtenances necessary, useful,
or convenient for the control, collection, storage, withdrawal, diver-
sion, release, treatment, transmission, sale, or exchange of water;
or for navigation thereon, or the development and use of hydro-
electric energy and power, and public recreational facilities; of the
propagation of fish and wildlife; or to conserve and protect the
water resources of the basin or any existing or future water supply
source, or to facilitate any other uses of any of them.

6.    "Federal government" shall mean the government of the
United States of America, and any appropriate branch, depart-
ment, bureau, or division thereof, as the case may be.

7.    "Project" shall mean any work, service, or activity which
is separately planned, financed, or identified by the commission, or
any separate facility undertaken or to be undertaken by the com-
mission or otherwise within a specified area, for the conservation,
utilization, control, development, or management of water resources
which can be established and utilized independently or as an addi-
tion to an existing facility and can be considered as a separate
entity for purposes of evaluation.

8.    "Signatory party" shall mean a state or commonwealth party
to this compact, or the Federal government.

9.    "Waters" shall mean both surface and underground waters
which are contained within the drainage area of the Susquehanna
River in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.

10.    "Water resources" shall include all waters and related natural
resources within the basin.

11.    "Withdrawal" shall mean a taking or removal of water from
any source within the basin for use within the basin.

12.    "Person" shall mean an individual, corporation, partnership,
unincorporated association, and the like and shall have no gender,
and the singular shall include the plural.

1.3—Purpose and Findings. The legislative bodies of the respec-
tive signatory parties hereby find and declare:

1.    The water resources of the Susquehanna River Basin are af-
fected with a local, state, regional, and national interest, and the
planning, conservation, utilization, development, management, and
control of these resources, under appropriate arrangements for
intergovernmental cooperation, are public purposes of the respective
signatory parties.

2.    The water resources of the basin are subject to the sovereign
rights and responsibilities of the signatory parties, and it is the
purpose of this compact to provide for a joint exercise of these
powers of sovereignty in the common interest of the people of the
region.