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--..:.i-l ,'~" i For Release October 25, 1971 Steucke 254-6305 ,....:....: l"\J C\J o o {~._:~:t MFiF ~g~~ t{~~\~._... p;'~~:6: ~}:;j;~--~ .'.-':::'.;.. ~~fl~ ~~i ~i~ ~%J ~t~ ~ :,":~,.,;:'-:'~ r~~~~1;; ~:;:~~:~ ~:~ :':-;~/ ;)---~::~?~ ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM PLANNING Comprehensive water and land resource planning along with a balanced approach to planning the use, protection and preservation of our water and land resources was presented today by W. Don Maughan, Director of the U.S. Water Resources Council, at the 7th American Water Resources Conference in Washington, D.C., October 24-28. Comprehensive planning of the nation's water and related land resources was assigned to the Water Resources Council by Congress when the Council was formed by Public Law 89-80 in 1965. The Council encourages and coordinates the conservation and utilization of water and related land resources on a comprehensive and coordinated basis by Federal, State, local and private enterprise. A new balanced method of planning, described in a report entitled "Principles and Standards for Planning Water and Land Resources", is the result of a special 2-1/2 year Council Interagency Task Force. The proposed planning method will require resource planners to prepare alternative programs at the earliest stage of planning for a comparison and selection of the best plan. Completely shown and compared will be the good, the bad, and the inbetween parts of each possible solution. Director Maughan, in describing the need for a better planning system, said, "Resource plans presently created under rigorous economic standards have not worked out too well. Primary weight has been on monetary values and not on alternative plans to do the job. The system we use today just does not provide a place for non-efficiency objectives." The United States Water Resources Council, an independent Executive Agency of the U.S. Government, is composed of the Secretaries of Intenor; Agriculture; Army; Health, Education. and Welfare. Transportation; Chairman, Federal Power Commission; with participation by the Secretaries of Commerce; Housing and Urban Development; Administrator. Environmental Protection Agency; Attorney General, Director. Office of Management and Budget; Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality; and the Chairmen, River Basin Commissions. Council activities encourage the conservation, development and utilization of water and related land resources on a comprehensive and coordinated basis by Federal, State, localllovernment and private enterprise. '.~;' --.; '.",. -<. .'...-:; .....-'.' '-'.,'-.'. '-..__-c.