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. JI02570 . . 4 Delaware River The Department is cooperating with the Corps of Engineers in a review of its reports. A Joint Engineering Work Group developed information on the storage potential and other features of possible reservoirs within the basin. Potomac River The Department is cooperating with the Corps of Engineers in a review of its reports on this basin. The Soil Conservation Service has developed informa- tion on storage potentials in small and intermediate size reservoirs for correlation with that on potentials for storage in large reservoirs developed by the Corps. Lower Mississinni River and Tributaries The Department cooperated with the Mississippi River Commission in a review of the Corps of Engineers' report. The Department has completed a report on the agricultural potential of selected project areas in the Mississippi allu- vial valley, utilizing data developed in the cooperative investigations; and the Mississippi River Commission completed the review survey report. Yazoo-MississiDDi River (Miss,) The Department is cooperating with the Mississippi Board of Water Commis- sioners in a comprehensive survey of land and water resource development on approximately 6 million acres in the Yazoo-Mississippi flood plain and the bluff area in Mississippi. The objective of this survey is to obtain in- formation to be used by the Department in identifying opportunities for P.L. 566 watershed projects. Tombi~bee River (Ala, and Miss, ) The Department also is cooperating with the Mississippi Board of Water Com- missioners in a survey and investigation of this basin. Information deve- loped is to be used by the Department to determine, among other things, opportunities for P.L. 566 watershed projects. The information will be used by the Board of Water Commissioners also, Colorado River Stora~e Proiect The USDA Field AdvisolY Committee composed of representatives of the Economic Research Service, Forest Service, and Soil Conservation Service and the Land Grant Colleges set up to coordinate the activities of departmental agencies and the colleges continued, in cooperation with the Department of the In- terior, reappraising the direct agricultural benefits to be expected from the participating projects of the Colorado River Storage Project. The pro- ject reports also provide information on the relationship between project facilities and adjacent watershed lands and the impact of the various pro- jects on national forest lands and improvements.