---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1358"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1358"
heading: "Consent of Congress for interstate compacts; reservation of right to alter, amend, or repeal"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1358"
units:
  - "Chapter 37 — State Technical Services"
---

# §1358. Consent of Congress for interstate compacts; reservation of right to alter, amend, or repeal

- (a) The consent of the Congress is given to any two or more [States](/usc/15/1352.md?p=f) to enter into [agreement](/usc/15/7a.md?p=2) or compacts, not in conflict with any law of the United States, for cooperative efforts and mutual assistance and in designating agencies, under [section 1357 of this title](/usc/15/1357.md), for accomplishing the purposes of this chapter.
- (b) The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section, or consent granted by this section, is expressly reserved.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–182, § 8, Sept. 14, 1965, 79 Stat. 682.)