796                                LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 391

3.    The water resources of the basin are functionally inter related
INTERRELATED, and the uses of these resources are interdepend-
ent. A single administrative agency is therefore essential for effective
and economical direction, supervision, and coordination of water
resources efforts and programs of federal, state, and local govern-
ments and of private enterprise.

4.    Present and future demands require increasing economies
and efficiencies in the use and reuse of water resources, and these
can be brought about only by comprehensive planning, programming,
and management under the direction of a single administrative
agency.

5.    In general, the purposes of this compact are to promote inter-
state comity; to remove causes of possible controversy; to make
secure and protect developments within the states; to encourage
and provide for the planning, conservation, utilization, development,
management, and control of the water resources of the basin; to
provide for cooperative and coordinated planning and action by the
signatory parties with respect to water resources; and to apply
the principle of equal and uniform treatment to all users of water
and of water related facilities without regard to political boundaries.

6.    It is the express intent of the signatory parties that the
commission shall engage in the construction, operation, and main-
tenance of a project only when the project is necessary to the
execution of the comprehensive plan and no other competent agency
is in a position to act, or such agency fails to act.

1.4—Powers of Congress; Withdrawal. Nothing in this compact
shall be construed to relinquish the functions, powers, or duties of
the Congress of the United States with respect to the control of
any navigable waters within the basin, nor shall any provisions
hereof be construed in derogation of any of the constitutional powers
of the Congress to regulate commerce among the states and with
foreign nations. The power and right of the Congress to withdraw
the Federal government as a party in TO this compact or to revise or
modify the terms, conditions, and provisions under which it may
remain a party by amendment, repeal, or modification of any Federal
statute applicable hereto is recognized by the signatory parties.

1.5—Duration of Compact.

(a)    The duration of this compact shall be for an initial period
of 100 years from its effective date, and it shall be continued for
additional periods of 100 years if not less than 20 years nor more
than 25 years prior to the termination of the initial period or any
succeeding period none of the signatory states, by authority of an
act of its legislature, notifies the commission of intention to termi-
nate the compact at the end of the then current 100-year period.

(b)    In the event this compact should be terminated by opera-
tion of paragraph (a) above, the commission shall be dissolved, its
assets and liabilities transferred in accordance with the equities
of the signatory parties therein, and its corporate affairs wound up
in accordance with agreement of the signatory parties or, failing
agreement, by act of the Congress.