Executive Order 11613—Membership of Environmental Protection Agency on Established River Basin Commissions

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 202 of the Water Resources Planning Act (79 Stat. 247; 42 U.S.C. 1962 b-1) and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 3 (2) of each of the following-described Executive orders is amended by adding "Environmental Protection Agency," immediately after "Department of Transportation,"—

(1) Executive Order No. 11331 of March 6, 1967, establishing the Pacific Northwest River Basins Commission;

(2) Executive Order No. 11345 of April 20, 1967, establishing the Great Lakes Basin Commission;

(3) Executive Order No. 11359 of June 20, 1967, establishing the Souris-Red-Rainy River Basins Commission; and

(4) Executive Order No. 11371 of September 6, 1967, establishing the New England River Basins Commission, as amended by Executive Order No. 11528 of April 24, 1970.

SEC. 2. The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall appoint a member to each river basin commission to serve as the representative of that Agency as soon as practicable after the date of issuance of this Order.

RICHARD NIXON

The White House

August 2, 1971