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[CITE: 33USC1253]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
           CHAPTER 26--WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
 
               SUBCHAPTER I--RESEARCH AND RELATED PROGRAMS
 
Sec. 1253. Interstate cooperation and uniform laws

    (a) The Administrator shall encourage cooperative activities by the 
States for the prevention, reduction, and elimination of pollution, 
encourage the enactment of improved and, so far as practicable, uniform 
State laws relating to the prevention, reduction, and elimination of 
pollution; and encourage compacts between States for the prevention and 
control of pollution.
    (b) The consent of the Congress is hereby given to two or more 
States to negotiate and enter into agreements or compacts, not in 
conflict with any law or treaty of the United States, for (1) 
cooperative effort and mutual assistance for the prevention and control 
of pollution and the enforcement of their respective laws relating 
thereto, and (2) the establishment of such agencies, joint or otherwise, 
as they may deem desirable for making effective such agreements and 
compacts. No such agreement or compact shall be binding or obligatory 
upon any State a party thereto unless and until it has been approved by 
the Congress.

(June 30, 1948, ch. 758, title I, Sec. 103, as added Pub. L. 92-500, 
Sec. 2, Oct. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 818.)
