5.__Executive committee. The executive committee is composed of the chairman of the governing board and 4 additional members of the governing board chosen by the governing board so that there is one member representing each of 4 geographic groupings of party states.__The governing board shall make those geographic groupings. If there is representation of the United States on the governing board, one representative may meet with the executive committee. The chair of the governing board is chair of the executive committee. An action of the executive committee is not binding unless taken at a meeting at which at least 4 members of the committee are present and vote in favor thereof. Necessary expenses of each of the 5 members of the executive committee incurred in attending meetings of the committee, when not held at the same time and place as a meeting of the governing board, are charges against the insurance fund.

§2317. Assistance and reimbursement -- Article VI

1.__Efforts. Each party state pledges to each other party state that it will employ its best efforts to eradicate or control, within the strictest practicable limits, any and all pests. It is recognized that performance of this responsibility involves:

A.__Maintaining pest control and eradication activities of interstate significance by a party state at a level that would be reasonable for its own protection in the absence of this compact; and

B.__Meeting emergency outbreaks or infestations of interstate significance to no less an extent than would have been done in the absence of this compact.

2.__Requests. Whenever a party state is threatened by a pest not present within its borders but present within another party state, or whenever a party state is undertaking or engaged in activities for the control or eradication of a pest or pests and finds that such activities are or would be impracticable or substantially more difficult because of the failure of another party state to cope with infestation or threatened infestation, that state may request the governing board to authorize expenditures from the insurance fund for eradication or