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Ch. 632
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2000 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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legislation and under terms and conditions as deemed appropriate by the agreeing
parties under subsection (m) and subsection (o).
(i) The signatories agree that existing federal-state, federal-interstate or
other intergovernmental arrangements which are not primarily directed to
environmental protection purposes as defined herein are not affected by this compact.
(j) All existing interstate and federal-interstate compacts directly relating to
environmental protection are hereby expressly recognized and nothing in this
compact shall be construed to diminish or supersede the powers and functions of such
existing intergovernmental agreements and the organizations created by them.
(k) Recognition herein of multistate commissions and compacts shall not be
construed to limit directly or indirectly the creation of additional multistate
organizations or interstate compacts, nor to prevent termination, modification,
extension, or supplementation of such multistate organizations and interstate
compacts.
(1) Nothing in this compact shall be construed to prevent signatories from
entering into multistate organizations or other interstate compacts which do not
conflict with their obligations under this compact or supplementary agreements.
(m) Any two or more signatories may enter into supplementary agreements for
joint, coordinated or mutual environmental pollution management activities relating
to interstate environmental pollution problems common to the jurisdictions of such
signatories and for the establishment of common or joint regulation, management,
services, agencies, or facilities for such purposes or may designate an appropriate
agency to act as their joint agency in regard thereto. No supplementary agreement
shall be valid to the extent that it conflicts with the purposes of this compact or with
the laws of the United States and the creation of a joint agency by supplementary
agreement shall not affect the privileges, powers, responsibilities or duties under this
compact of signatories participating therein.
(n) The chief executive is authorized to enter into supplementary agreements
for the signatory and his official signature shall render the agreement immediately
binding upon the signatory:
Provided that:
(1) The legislative body of any signatory entering into such a
supplementary agreement shall at its next legislative session competent to consider
the same bring the supplementary agreement before it and by appropriate legislative
action approve, disapprove, or condition the agreement of that signatory
(2) Nothing in this compact shall be construed to limit the right of
Congress by act of law expressly enacted thereafter for that purpose to disapprove or
condition a supplementary agreement.
(o) Signatories may enter into special supplementary agreements with foreign
nations in the manner provided in subsection (n) for the same purposes and with the
same powers as under subsection (m) upon the condition that such non-signatory
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