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ALABAMA-COOSA-TALLAPOOSA RIVER BASIN

COMPACT AND THE APALACHICOLA-CHATTA-
HOOCHEE AND FLINT RIVER BASIN COMPACT

HEARING

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

COMMERCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

ONE HUNDRED SEVENTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

DECEMBER 19, 2001

Serial No. 54

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ALABAMA-COOSA-TALLAPOOSA RIVER BASIN

COMPACT AND THE APALACHICOLA-CHATTAHOOCHEE AND FLINT RIVER BASIN COM

PACT

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 19, 2001

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMMERCIAL
AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW,
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY,
Washington, DC.

The Subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:28 a.m., in Room 2141, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Bob Barr [Chairman of the Subcommittee] presiding.

Mr. BARR. I would like to convene this hearing of the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law to consider matters and receive testimony relating to testimony relating to the Alabama-CoosaTallapoosa, Apalachicola-Chattahoochee and Flint River Basin Compacts.

We are pleased today to conduct our first hearing on the progress of the ACT and ACF River Basin Compacts, as they are commonly known by their acronyms. These two compacts accomplished commissions involving the States of Georgia, Florida and Alabama which entrusted them with the development of a water resource allocation plan for the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa and the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee and Flint River Basins.

The two compacts were approved by the Congress in 1997 pursuant to article 1, section 10 of the U.S. Constitution, which provides that no State shall without consent of Congress enter into any agreement or compact with another State or with a foreign power. The Constitution mandates congressional authorization so that Federal interests and those of other States will be considered and protected.

Proper utilization and allocation of water resources at the river basins in question is vital to the economic life and development of the entire region. Accordingly, cooperation among Alabama, Florida and Georgia is essential if a fair and reasonable allocation is to be achieved.

Without a cooperative effort, wasteful litigation would appear to be inevitable, the type of litigation which the Supreme Court has repeatedly tried to discourage and the type of litigation that is guaranteed to drag on for years, if not decades, with no one being the better for it.

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