Posted: | January 16, 2020 09:45 AM |
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From: | Representative Cris Dush |
To: | All House members |
Subject: | Providing for Termination of Delaware River Basin Compact |
The Delaware River Basin Compact Law enacted in 1961, established Pennsylvania’s participation in the interagency, multi state agency charged with managing and monitoring water resources in Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, and New Jersey. While well-intentioned when passed, the Delaware River Basin Compact Law has since created burdens for municipalities in the Delaware River Basin and taxpayers throughout the Commonwealth. The initial term of the Delaware River Basis Commission is to last one hundred years. I am introducing legislation which will give the Commonwealth some relief long before that deadline, still some decades away. My legislation will require the Governor to negotiate with the other parties to the compact to seek either an early termination of the compact itself or allow for the withdrawal of Pennsylvania as a party to it. These negotiations would continue for five years and require annual reports to the General Assembly of the efforts made to comply with the withdrawal or termination efforts. If no agreement is reached for either an early termination of the compact or Pennsylvania’s withdrawal from it, then notice would be given of the Commonwealth’s intention to terminate at the end of the initial term. Please join me in cosponsoring this legislation to rein in the power of this agency. |
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