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o Form 2924 Revised 6.1.62 - National Rivers and Harbors Congress REGULATIONS GOVERNING APPLICATIONS FOR THE CLASSIF1CATION OF PROJECTS by the PROJECTS COMMITI'EE .-' SECTION A RULES OF THE COMMITTEE 1. EXl\lIlination of a project by the Committee must be the result of action initiated by the proponents; that is to say, the Committee will concern itself only with projects which are brought before it by application in such manner and form as the Committee may prescribe. 2. The nature of projects upon which the Committee will undertake to pass must be such as to place them clearly within its jurisdiction; namely, navigation, flood control, hydraulic power, irrigation, erosion, reclamation, drainage, pollution, and other projects importantly related to water supply, conservation, use or control. 3. In its examination and judgment of a project the Committee will recognize as applica- ble any data or facts which it may deem to have been developed by competent authority. It will base its judgment in all cases upon such data and facts, supplemented by authoritative opinion wherever this may appear to be appropriate. 4. The value of a project will be judged by comparing its cost with the benefits to be derived. So far as the proposed expenditure involved in anyone project is concerned it will be considered without reference to expenditures made or contemplated on any other project within the same drainage basin. The distribution of Federal funds among the several drain- age basins of the country is a matter with which the Committee will not concern itself. 5. The Committee will examine any given project only if and when it shall judge that the data s.ubmitted are sufficiently complete and authoritative to warrant action. 6. Among the regulations governing the filing and processing of applications for the clas- sification of projects shall be the f(illowing: a. Each application shall be limited to one project. Applications covering more than one project will be deferred, and the applicant required to divide the same into the requi- site number .of separate applications. If the application relates to a project comprising practicably separable physical elements, the Committee may require separate applica- tions in accordance with such division as it may direct. b. All applications must be filed in the office of the Executive Vice President, and must be in such form and in accordance with such rules as the Committee may from time to time promnlgate. c. Except in circumstances under which, in the judgment of the Committee, the public interest requires earlier action, no project will be classified by the Committee in Divi- sion I or Division II unless the application for its examination, duly completed in the prescribed form, shall have been on file in the office of the Executive Vice President for at least 90 days. However, the Committee will afford a hearing to proponents of any project, application for the classification of which has been duly tIled. d. When received by the Executive Vice President, completed applications will be given numbers in the order of their receipt; and, after docketing, will be forwarded to the member representing the division in which they originate. If incomplete, they will be held in the office of the Executive Vice President, and the applicant notified. Upon re- ceipt of a completed application, the appropriate divisional member of the committee will make an examination thereof and a report thereon to the Chairman of the Com- mittee. The application, with the divisional member's report, will then be presented to the whole Committee and will be acted upon by ballot. Ordinarily the Committee will not act upon any application until the applicants or their duly authorized repre- sentatives have made appearance before the Committee. e. Action by the Committee will take the form of classifying projects into five divisions: -ENDORSED; MERITORIOUS; EXPEDITIOUS REPORT ON AUTHORIZED SUR- VEY REQUESTED; RECOMMENDED FOR SURVEY; and NOT CLASSIFIED. 7. A project which has been placed in any but the first division, ENDORSED, may be re- examined by the Committee from to time, upon due application and the submission of material supplementary evidence, with a view to advancing its classification, but no project will be re- ported upon by the Committee more than once each year. 8. So far as it may be practicable, applications will be examined and acted upon in turn.