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Senate Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2021 - 2022
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | January 10, 2021 06:18 PM |
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| From: | Senator Gene Yaw |
| To: | All Senate members |
| Subject: | Resolution recognizing the Susquehanna River Basin Commission on its 50th Anniversary |
| In the near future, I intend to offer a Senate Resolution recognizing the Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) on its 50th Anniversary. Signed by President Richard M. Nixon on Christmas Eve, December 24th, 1970, the 100-year Susquehanna River Basin Compact joins the federal government and states of Pennsylvania, New York and Maryland as equal partners sharing the planning and management of one of our nation’s largest river basins, the Susquehanna River. The Compact, which went into effect on January 23rd, 1971, also established the SRBC as the agency to coordinate these water resource efforts. The Susquehanna River Basin is home to more than four million people who rely on its waters for drinking, recreation, power production, and industry and six million who rely on its water from the basin (Baltimore and Chester exports). The Susquehanna River itself is the nation’s sixteenth largest river and is the largest river lying entirely in the United States that flows into the Atlantic Ocean. The Susquehanna and its hundreds of tributaries drain 27,510 square miles, an area nearly the size of South Carolina. Like the flow of the Susquehanna River itself, the need for management of our critical water resources doesn’t pause for even a short amount of time. Over these past 50 years, SRBC Commissioners and staff have worked diligently to advance monitoring and restoration efforts, implement beneficial new policies, uphold commitments to partners and the public, and maintain oversight of proposed and operating water use projects. I hope you join me in recognizing the SRBC on its 50 years of service and its important work as a guardian of the Susquehanna River and our water resources. |