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<br />00032B <br /> <br />14 <br /> <br />proper attention is given. to life supporting ecosystems. This <br />means that priority attention must be directed to environmental <br />quality in project planning and evaluation. This highest order <br />public interest value must be given primary consideration. " <br /> <br />**i.~~~* <br /> <br />"The immediate need is to prepare guidelines that apply to <br />all water and land planning and development projects to assure <br />that ecosystems receive appropriate priority consideration by <br />all units of the Federal Government, by all state governments, <br />and the public. <br /> <br />". . . the power-production facilities licensed by agencies <br />of the Federal Government [should] be covered by the proposed <br />principles and standards for water development projects. <br /> <br />"Works authorized by the agencies use large quantities of <br />water and have substantial potential impacts on the aquatic re- <br />sources of the Nation, such as through release of warm waters. <br />This thermal effect will become of increasing concern as more <br />power plants are constructed." <br /> <br />~ -, <br />." 'f'" <br /> <br />* * * <br /> <br />"Recognition of the need for this full participation by pro- <br />fessionals and citizens is absolutely essential to help insure that <br />the new principles and standards are applied in the soundest <br />manner practical. " <br /> <br />~~::~*::::* <br /> <br />"Legal authoritie s, institutional arrangements, and. pro- <br />cedures of governments should maintain and enhance, not <br />degrade and destroy, the quantity and quality of these important <br />units of the landscape. National and state standards should pro- <br />vide uniform recognition of the se critical units of the landscape. <br />This approach would complement the purposes and intents of the <br />pending National Land Use Policy Act. <br /> <br />\ <br /> <br />! <br /> <br />"This principle of establishing national and state standards <br />and guidelines should be applied much more freely than has been <br />done in past years or is proposed in the new principles and <br />standards for planning water and related land resources." <br /> <br />* i.~ * ::'r; i.~ <br />