EXECUTIVE BRANCH: INTERSTATE AGENCIES6


  History: Chapter 641, Laws of 1965, established an interstate compact for
education and spec-
ified the composition of Wisconsin's delegation to the Education Commission
of the States.
  Organization: The delegation consists of 7 members: the governor and the
state superintend-
ent of public instruction, one senator and one representative appointed as
are standing commit-
tees in the respective houses, and 3 members appointed by the governor. The
governor
designates the delegation's chairperson, and the Department of Administration
provides admin-
istrative and staff services.
  Functions: The commission was established to maintain close cooperation
among executive,
legislative, educational, and lay leadership on a nationwide basis at the
state and local levels;
provide a forum for discussing policy alternatives in the education field;
provide an information
clearinghouse about education problems and their various solutions throughout
the nation; and
facilitate the improvement of state and local educational systems.





                GREAT LAKES COMPACT COMMISSION

Wisconsin Members: JOHN D. BILOTTI (state officer member), Wisconsin chairperson;
LINDA
  BOCHERT, WALDO MARTIN.
Mailing Address: Great Lakes Commission: Michael Donahue, Executive Director,
The Argus II
  Building, 400 South Fourth Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103-4816. Wisconsin
Great
  Lakes Compact Commission: John D. Bilotti, Division of Energy and Intergovernmental
Re-
  lations, Department of Administration, P.O. Box 7868, Madison 53707.
Telephone: Wisconsin Great Lakes Compact Commission: (608) 266-8976; Great
Lakes Com-
  mission: (313) 665-9135.
Publications of the Great Lakes Commission: Advisor (monthly newsletter);
annual report; special
  reports.
Statutory Reference: Section 14.78.
  History: With enactment of Chapter 275, Laws of 1955, Wisconsin ratified
the Great Lakes
Basin Compact. The compact created the Great Lakes Commission to represent
the 8 Great
Lakes states in their pursuit of solutions to common problems. Congress recognized
the Great
Lakes Basin Compact in P.L. 90-419, July 24, 1968. The Great Lakes Commission
replaced the
Deep Waterways Commission, which had been established to promote the St.
Lawrence Seaway
project.
  Organization: Chapter 275, Laws of 1955, also created the Wisconsin Great
Lakes Compact
Commission, and its members serve as Wisconsin's delegates to the interstate
commission. The
governor appoints Wisconsin's 3 members on the basis of their knowledge of
and interest in
Great Lakes basin problems. One commissioner, who must be a state officer
or employe, is
appointed to an indefinite term. This appointee serves as secretary of Wisconsin's
compact com-
mission and as a member of the executive committee of the 8-state Great Lakes
Commission.
Wisconsin's other 2 commissioners serve 4-year terms. Commissioners receive
no salaries, but
they are reimbursed for expenses.
  Functions: The Wisconsin Great Lakes Compact Commission represents the
state on the
Great Lakes Commission, the purposes of which are to promote orderly development
of the
basin's water resources; enable basin residents to derive maximum benefit
from public works
such as navigational aids; and advise in maintaining a balance among industrial,
commercial,
agricultural, water supply, residential, recreational, and other uses of
basin water resources.
Commissioners from the 8 Great Lakes states pursue these goals by sharing
information, coordi-
nating state positions on issues of regional concern, and advocating positions
on which the states
agree.


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