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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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Ch. 632
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(2) Nothing in this compact shall be deemed to impair or affect any
rights, powers, duties, or responsibilities vested by law in the United States, its
agencies or instrumentalities.
(d) Nothing contained in this compact shall impair or extend the
constitutional authority of any signatory, nor shall the police powers of any signatory
be affected except as expressly provided in a supplementary agreement under Article
4.
Article 2
Short Title, Definitions, Purposes, and Limitations
(e) This compact shall be known and may be cited as the Interstate
Environment Compact.
(f) For the purpose of this compact and of any supplemental or concurring
legislation enacted pursuant or in relation hereto, except as may be otherwise
required by the context:
(1) "State" shall mean any state of the United States of America, the
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories and
possessions of the United States.
(2) "Interstate environmental pollution" shall mean any pollution of a
stream or body of water crossing or marking a state boundary, pollution of an
interstate air quality control region, any solid waste disposal program participated in
by more than one state, or land use practice affecting the environment of more than
one state.
(3) "Government" shall mean the government of the United States or a
signatory state.
(4) "Federal government" shall mean the government of the United
States of America and any appropriate department, instrumentality, agency,
commission, bureau, division, branch or other unit thereof, as the case may be, but
shall not include the District of Columbia.
(5) "Signatory" shall mean any state which enters into this compact.
Article 3
Intergovernmental Cooperation
(g) Signatories are hereby authorized jointly to participate in cooperative or
joint undertakings for the protection of the interstate environment with the federal
government or with any intergovernmental or interstate agencies.
Article 4
Supplementary Agreements
(h) Signatories may enter into agreements for the purpose of controlling
interstate environmental pollution problems not inconsistent with applicable federal
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