HEALTH 1915

sistants as may be required to carry the provisions of this compact into
effect, and shall determine their qualifications and fix their duties and
compensation. Such personnel as may be employed shall be employed
without regard to any civil service or other similar requirements for em-
ployes of any of the signatory bodies. The Commission may maintain one
or more offices for the transaction of its business and may meet at any time
or place within the area of the Conservancy District.

(C) The Commission shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and
disbursements and shall make an annual report thereof and shall in such
report set forth in detail the operations and transactions conducted by it
pursuant to this compact. The Commission, however, shall not incur any
obligations for administrative or other expenses prior to the making of
appropriations adequate to meet the same nor shall it in any way pledge the
credit of any of the signatory bodies. Each of the signatory bodies reserves
the right to make at any time an examination and audit of the accounts of
the Commission.

(D) A quorum of the Commission, shall for the transaction of business,
the exercise of any powers, or the performance of any duties, consist of
at least a majority of the members of the Commission; provided, however,
that no action of the Commission relating to policy shall be binding on any
one of the signatory bodies unless at least two of the commissioners from
such signatory body shall vote in favor thereof.

ARTICLE II.

The Commission shall have the power and its duties shall be:

(A) To coordinate, tabulate, and summarize technical and other data
now available, or as shall become available in the future from any source,
on the pollution of the streams of the Conservancy District and on the
character and conditions of such streams, and to prepare reports thereon
annually and at such other times as may he deemed advisable by the Com-
mission.

(B) To supplement existing information and data, and to secure new
data by such investigations, analyses, or other means as may be necessary
to secure adequate information on the character and condition of the
streams of the Conservancy District as they now exist or may be affected
by the future discharge of sewage and industrial and other wastes into the
said stream.

(C) To cooperate with the legislative and administrative agencies of
the signatory bodies, or the equivalent thereof, and with other interested
commissions and similar organizations for the purpose of: promoting uni-
form laws, rules or regulations for the abatement and control of pollution
of streams in the said Conservancy District.

(D) To disseminate to the public information on the aims and purposes
of the Commission and on the harmful and uneconomical results of stream
pollution, through the issuance of bulletins, circulars, correspondence,
literature and reports.

(E) To cooperate with other organizations engaged in fact-finding and
research activities on the treatment of sewage and industrial wastes or
other wastes, and if deemed advisable, to institute and conduct such re-
search and fact-finding activities.

(F) To make and if needful from time to time, revise and to recom-
mend to the signatory bodies, reasonable, minimum standards for the treat-