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.'~:.~. ..",". '",'.002263 074-1927 ~~~~~~:>., :~: . 1lEMORANDUM January 1:4, 1% ----- ANALYSIS OF S. 1519 INrRODUCED IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, NOVEMBER 9. 1943 BY SENATOR MoCLELLAN, BEING A. BILL "TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION, MAINrENANCE, AND OPERATION OF FLOOD-CONTROL AND NAVIGAT ION IMPROVEMENTS, n,CLUDING DAMS, RESERVOIRS. AND ALLIED STRUCTURES. IN THE Bl.SINS OF THE ~KAFSAS M'D WHITE RIVERS, AND FOR THE DISPOSITION OF SURPLUS ELECTRIC ENERGY GENE1lA.TED BY THE FEDERAL FLOOD- CONrROL AND NAVIGATION IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BASINS OF SUCH RIVERS." - - ... - - An analysis of this propossd legislation must reoognize the basio faot Hat the upper Arkansas river basin in Colorado and Western Kanaas inoludes arid and semi-arid lands where irrigation is praotioed and where future de- velopment involves additional beneficial use of water to nurture growing orops. Further. it must be reoognized that lower Arkansas basin development, in dis- regard of these irrigation uses, imposea a potential threat to established and possible increased agrioultural produotion in the upper basin. The above described 'Bill is analyzed as follows, 1. Section 2. This seotion establishes a federal polioy with respeot to the development of the Arkansas and White river basina. It states that it shall be the federal policy to make use of existing federal agenoies for con- struotion. operation and maintenanoe of all publio improvements in these basins; and that the provisions of the Bill are designed to insure "ooordinated operation of all Federal projeots therein for the improvement of navigation and alleviation of flood oonditions." The section further announoes that it shall be the policy. ". . . to provide for realization of other benefits to be derived from suoh projects; to faoilitate preparations and planning for post-war oonstruction by the Federal government in the intereat of employment; and to secure efficient exeouti ve management 'under the dil'Sotion and super- vision of the permanent exeoutive agenoies already established by Aot of Con- gress." The clause, fbmd in lines 2, 3 and 4. page 2, of the printed Bill 000- stitutes the "heart" and determining faotor in the polioy statement oontained in Seotion 2 of the Bill. This olause reads "to insure ooordinated operation of all Federal projeots therein far the improvel11flnt of navigation and allev- iation of flood oonditions." The olause following the one just quoted provides for other benefit a derived from projeot developlIV3nt, but these other benefits of river improvement, suoh as irrigation, are made subaervient to the dominant use for navigation ~ floOd-oontrol,