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115.

ARTICLE 4
WATER SUPPLY

4.01 Development, Storage and Release of Waters.—The Com-
mission may acquire, construct, operate and maintain projects and
facilities and such related structures, appurtenances and equipment
as it deems appropriate, for the development, storage and release
of water and for the regulation of flows and supplies of surf ace and
ground waters of the basin, for domestic, municipal, agricultural and
industrial water supply, the protection of public health, water quality
control, economic development, improvement of fisheries and wildlife,
recreation, flood control and flood damage reduction, prevention of
undue salinity, and for other purposes relating to the control and
use of the water resources of the basin.

4.02.    Unauthorized Diminution of Augmented Flows Prohibited.
—No person or governmental agency shall diminish any augmented
flow during any period in which releases from storage are being made
under the direction of the Commission, except where diversion or
withdrawal is authorized by this compact or by the Commission.

4.03.    Additional Powers.—In connection with any project author-
ized by this article, the Commission shall have power to provide
storage, treatment, pumping, and transmission facilities, but nothing
herein shall be construed to authorize the Commission to engage in
the retail business of distributing water.

116.

ARTICLE 5
WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL

5.01.    Intent and Policy.—(a) The legislative intent in enacting
this article is to give specific emphasis to the primary responsibility
of the signatory states for water quality management and control.

(b) In order to conserve, protect, and improve the quality of the
waters of the basin, it shall be the policy of the Commission to
encourage and coordinate the efforts of the signatories to prevent,
reduce, control, and eliminate pollution so as to achieve and maintain
water quality consistent with the uses established in the comprehen-
sive water resources plan.

5.02.    Standards for Controlling Water Quality.—(a) The Com-
mission may recommend to the signatories their establishment, modi-
fication, or amendment of standards of quality for any waters of the
basin.

(b) The Commission may, after public hearing, adopt and from
time to time change, criteria of water quality for each classification
of water use established in the comprehensive water resources plan,
standards of water quality applicable to particular waters of the
basin, standards for preventing, controlling and abating pollution,
and definitions of pollution and identification of pollutants.

Upon the effective date of this compact, the criteria and standards
in force in the signatory states shall be deemed to have been adopted