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//~.: ~,~'; ,,:., 0024lJ7 LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS, November 21,1957. Mr. MICHAEL W. STRAUS, Oonsultant, Senate Oommittee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Senate Office Building, Washington 25, D. O. DEAR MR. STRAUS: You are requested to collect and assemble from any sources easily available to this committee or yourself, and then set down in the form of a report to the committee, existing unre- stricted and unclassified information that might assist in making a rough appraisal of the relationships of the river or other water resource development programs of the Umted States, Russia, China, and such other nations as you find convenient. . The relative size, scope, and velocity of these programs in actual results as measured by areas made productive of food through irriga- tion, electrical energy produced, flood control and water transport ~chieved, with such distmction between promise and performance as is possible, are definitely pertinent to the report required. . In assembling and preparing this report IOU have wide latitude, but keep in mind the committee's responsibIlity, which I have fre- quently cited, to study and submit to the Senate the best and most adequate river-development programs possible. Make your report, whatever its conclusions, responsive to the responsibilities of the committee. ... . . I enunciated in June on the Senate floor that we be alert to what we here in: this country are achieving by co:r;nparison with what others elsewhere are accomplishing and logIcal projections of the trends registered. You a.re requested to report factually on what and how mlJ.ch is being done inj;his field; where and just how it is done. It will not be pertinent or necessary to compare the conflicting political philosophies m which the programs are executed. In preparing this report in addition to any citable sources with which you are already familiar, please submit any information avail- able to the committee from United Nations and Central Intelligence Agency sources. While there is a wealth of ill-assorted and uncata- loged information on.this subject.available, it is anticip.!lated consid- eraple will be conflicting, out of date, or incomplete. Nevertheless, confine your collection to available sources, .at this time, without attempting any original studies or more conclusive eyewitnessinspec- tions, so as to be able to complete and submit a report for the com- mittee's convenience and consideration priortothe forthcoming session of Congress. ... . . . Sincerely. yours, . JAMES E. (26) MURRAY, Ohairman. o O.,C.,._: .'~~.'~~'~~~;.4,'.r};>~'~, ..,~.