66                                Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 30

11.05.    Standards.—Regulations shall be adopted, and permits
shall be granted, modified or denied, as the case may be, to avoid
such depletion of the surface and ground waters in a protected
or in an emergency area as will adversely affect the comprehensive
water resources plan or the just and equitable interests and rights
of other lawful users of the same source, giving due regard to the
need to balance and reconcile alternative and conflicting uses in the
event of an actual or threatened shortage of water.

11.06.    Termination.—From time to time the Commission shall
review its actions taken pursuant to Section 11.01. If conditions
then so warrant, the Commission may alter the areas so delineated,
and after public hearing may then enlarge or diminish areas desig-
nated under Section 11.02 as protected areas. After the conditions
requiring control no longer exist, the Commission shall terminate
the designation of any such area as a protected area.

The Commission shall review at least monthly any action taken
pursuant to Section 11.03, and when it determines that the drought
or the condition which caused or could have caused an actual and
immediate shortage of available water no longer prevails, the Com-
mission shall terminate the designation of the area as an emergency
area.

11.07.    Maintenance of Records.—Each signatory shall provide
for the maintenance and preservation of such records of authorized
diversions and withdrawals, and the quantities thereof, as the Com-
mission shall prescribe. Such records, and related reports, shall be
furnished to the Commission at its request.

11.08.    Existing Authorizations.—Permits authorized or issued
and every other authorization to store, use, withdraw or divert water
under the laws of any of the signatories in every emergency area,
shall be suspended to the extent of any conflict with the control
and regulation exercised by the Commission, pursuant to this article.

123.

ARTICLE 12
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

12.01. Federal, State and Local Projects.—For the purposes of
avoiding conflicts of jurisdiction and of giving full effect to the Com-
mission as a regional agency of the signatories, the following rules
shall apply to all governmental agencies:

(a)   The planning and design of all projects and facilities related
to powers of the Commission under this compact shall be undertaken
in consultation with the Commission;

(b) No expenditure or commitment shall be made for or on account
of the construction, acquisition or operation of any project or facility
nor shall it be deemed authorized, unless it shall have first been
included by the Commission in its comprehensive water resources
plan or amenities plan, or has been otherwise approved by the
Commission;

(c)  All plans shall be made, and if need be modified, so as to con-
form with the Commission's comprehensive water resources plan
and, to the extent required for compliance with Section 9.06 (b),
with the Commission's amenities plan, or such parts or revisions
thereof as have been adopted by the Commission;