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QJ2J"'1 r-.-,.__-" ~)~:~' ~ ;... .~J .: I ..~:. ", :;: -:'--~: -:-- ~~ .\.. ,- Assistance to local interests Administration of programs Setting standards Cooperation with Federal agencies ~'I' '.....:..: ~~~Jf 'I. ~~.;;~;:~ r::~ , The seven Federal Departments involved in water and related. land resource development are: ~. .. .. Department of the Army Department of Agriculture Department of Commerce Department of Health, Education and Welfare Department of the Interior Department of Labor Federal Power Commission ",':.":1 ......:.;..:..'1 !: ~<. . :..... :".:':"~':::' : .... -;. "..'. ",' .. if:,.::; i:-.'~';" :;,~:;I ~':':-'~;": ~ . Stewardship of water resources Provide for health, safety, welfare, and defense Promote national objectives Consider all viewpoints Plan comprehensively Cooperate with State and local interests o ~y,.:;::;':: ~7.//':: ~:~;~}'.i. ,..:'>~:;:; I ~;~:':"/:~'.; ~ ::,~'.::\+' t::j:;~~1 ~! ........., All of these agencies have a role in broad planning of resource develop- ment. All cooperate with and assist counterpart State agencies and local people and three Departments, namely, Interior, Arary, and Agriculture have large development programs. The Federal role can be briefly stated as: General Background - To understand better the reasons for undertaking the study and its general nature it may be well to consider the general setting for the action of the Inter-Agency Cowmdttee in June 1964. The Senate Select Committee on National Water Resources was established in April 1959 to study the relation .of water resource activities in the United States to the National interest. The Committee reached the general con- clusion that the nature, immediacy, and gravity of the water resourcea 'Prob- lems faced by the United States vary greatly from region to region, but that all parts of the Nation either have or will have problems. This Com- mittee further concluded that the task confronting the Nation in the water field is one Of. meeting growing demands on water resources in the most effi- cient manner consistent with. public aims. The Committee recommended that comprehensive studies of water and related land resources be undertaken for all river basins in the Nation. It pointed out that several, of which the Missouri Basin was one, had shortages of water which will affect the economy and futUre growth. It also brought out the problem of the deteriorating quality of the water resources of the Nation. . ~;:h:.<.~ ....-,. The Senate Select Committee's findings received Presidential sU'PPort. Congressional action culminated in the passage of the Water Resources Plan- ning Act of 1965. Under this Act comprehensive framework studies of all .,. .:1 . ".... '{::-~.;. ':- . "', :L.)) I 4 .,'.; '". , .. '.~. . "-"'1 ...:-c..".. .'. .1 ~~?;~t ~.,_::~:: .';, ~,:.):~;,~'. i ;':-Y:--~:> :. .;...~ '-' ~g~~i~i;f.;:J,j!;it~f~~t:'~;~;;~~'~~r:i!~~;i\:~~i.::;::;~:::~:i;;zn~ts':J;~;~~;';?,~!:~\~J()(~~~~i:;if;!t~I~1{k;~tJk{ti~J~;t'~;'~~K~t~t~}~~ffJ"f;}