MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                1145

ANNUAL LOSS OF APPROXIMATELY TEN BILLION DOLLARS FROM THE
DEPREDATIONS OF PESTS IS VIRTUALLY CERTAIN TO CONTINUE,

IF NOT TO INCREASE.

(B)    BECAUSE OF VARYING CLIMATIC, GEOGRAPHIC AND
ECONOMIC FACTORS, EACH STATE MAY BE AFFECTED DIFFERENTLY
BY PARTICULAR SPECIES OF PESTS; BUT ALL STATES SHARE THE
INABILITY TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FULLY AGAINST THOSE PESTS
WHICH PRESENT SERIOUS DANGERS TO THEM.

(C)    THE MIGRATORY CHARACTER OF PEST INFESTATIONS
MAKES IT NECESSARY FOR STATES BOTH ADJACENT TO AND
DISTANT FROM ONE ANOTHER TO COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER'S
ACTIVITIES WHEN FACED WITH CONDITIONS OF INFESTATION AND
REINFESTATION.

(D)    WHILE EVERY STATE IS SERIOUSLY AFFECTED BY A
SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF PESTS, AND EVERY STATE IS
SUSCEPTIBLE OF INFESTATION BY MANY SPECIES OF PESTS NOT
NOW CAUSING DAMAGE TO ITS CROP AND PLANT LIFE AND
PRODUCTS, THE FACT THAT RELATIVELY FEW SPECIES OF PESTS
PRESENT EQUAL DANGER TO OR ARE OF INTEREST TO ALL STATES
MAKES THE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF AN INSURANCE
FUND, FROM WHICH INDIVIDUAL STATES MAY OBTAIN FINANCIAL
SUPPORT FOR PEST CONTROL PROGRAMS OF BENEFIT TO THEM IN
OTHER STATES AND TO WHICH THEY MAY CONTRIBUTE IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR RELATIVE INTERESTS, THE MOST
EQUITABLE MEANS OF FINANCING COOPERATIVE PEST ERADICATION
AND CONTROL PROGRAMS.

5-702. DEFINITIONS.

AS USED IN THIS COMPACT, UNLESS THE CONTEXT CLEARLY
REQUIRES A DIFFERENT CONSTRUCTION:

(A)    "STATE" MEANS A STATE, TERRITORY OR POSSESSION
OF THE UNITED STATES, THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, AND THE
COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO.

(B)    "REQUESTING STATE" MEANS A STATE WHICH INVOKES
THE PROCEDURES OF THE COMPACT TO SECURE THE UNDERTAKING
OR INTENSIFICATION OF MEASURES TO CONTROL OR ERADICATE
ONE OR MORE PESTS WITHIN ONE OR MOPE OTHER STATES.

(C)    "RESPONDING STATE" MEANS A STATE REQUESTED TO
UNDERTAKE OR INTENSIFY THE MEASURES REFERRED TO IN
SUBDIVISION (B) OF THIS SECTION.

(D)    "PEST" MEANS ANY INVERTEBRATE ANIMAL,
PATHOGEN, PARASITIC PLANT OR SIMILAR OR ALLIED ORGANISM
WHICH CAN CAUSE DISEASE OR DAMAGE IN ANY CROPS, TREES,
SHRUBS, GRASSES OR OTHER PLANTS OF SUBSTANTIAL VALUE.

(E)    "INSURANCE FUND" MEANS THE PEST CONTROL
INSURANCE FUND ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS COMPACT.

(F)    "GOVERNING BOARD" MEANS THE ADMINISTRATORS OF
THIS COMPACT REPRESENTING ALL OF THE PARTY STATES WHEN