INTERSTATE COMMISSION ON THE POTOMAC RIVER BASIN

Representatives from the State of Maryland: Theodore R.
McKeldin, Governor; John Raymond Fletcher, 1956; George
F. Hazelwood, 1957.
Alternates: Harry O. Levin, R. V. Truitt, James C. Warden.

Ellis S. Tisdale, Director

202 Transportation Bldg., Washington 6, D. C.
Telephone: Executive 3-1978

The Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin was estab-
lished by an Act of Congress in 1940, and the compact was ratified by
the participating states shortly thereafter. The Commission is com-
posed of representatives from the United States Government, the
States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, and
the District of Columbia. The representatives from Maryland include
the Governor, and two members, who are residents of the Potomac
River Conservancy District, appointed by the Governor for a term
of two years (Code 1939, Art. 43, secs. 385, 886). The Commission has
jurisdiction over the Potomac River Conservancy District, created by
the enabling act. The District embraces an area of approximately
14,500 square miles with an estimated population of 2,000,000. The
duties of the Commission are (1) to coordinate, tabulate, and sum-
marize existing data on the character, pollution, and condition of
streams in the Conservancy District; (2) to supplement existing
data, when necessary, by conducting investigations; (3) to promote
adoption by the signatory bodies of uniform legislation for the con-
trol of stream pollution; (4) to disseminate information to the public
on the effects of stream pollution and the objectives of the Commis-
sion; (5) to cooperate with other organizations in, and conduct, if
advisable, studies of treatment methods for sewage and industrial
wastes; (6) to recommend to signatory bodies standards for cleanli-
ness of streams.

The Commission is financed by appropriations from each of the
participating bodies.

Appropriations 1955 1956
General Fund .................................... $7,500 $7,500

SOUTHERN REGIONAL EDUCATION BOARD
Members of the Board from Maryland:
Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor

Harry Clifton Byrd, Martin D. Jenkins, Thomas G.
Pullen, Jr.
John E. Ivey, Jr., Director

G. Watson Algire, Director of Admissions,
University of Maryland, Certification Officer.

881 Peachtree Street, N. E.

Atlanta, 9, Ga. Telephone: Elgin 6781
College Park Telephone Warfield 7-3800

The Southern Regional Education Board operates under terms of
the Southern Regional Education Compact of 1949, which the legis-
latures of Maryland and fourteen other states have ratified. Its pur-
pose is to help develop graduate, professional, and technical education
in the South through interstate cooperation to achieve programs of