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<br />0012Gl <br /> <br />5 <br /> <br />After such studies and investigations, the Board is required to <br />formulate a state policy for the utilization of these waters <br />without priority except that determined by tne State Water <br />Resources Boc.rd upon t.1,e facts develoned. The one exception is <br />for human and ] 1 ves t.oe,' consllmpU on. <br />fhe Legislature repeated the reference to use by the people <br />for beneficial purposes without waste in this statute, and used <br />language sucl, as it is in the putlic interest that integration <br />and coordination of Ilses of water and augmentation of existing <br />supplies for all beneficial purposes be aChieved for the maximum <br />economic development for t.ne benefit of the state 8S a whole. <br />The act requires tnat plans and programs for the development and <br />enlargement of the water reSOllrces of the state te devised and <br />promoted and that other activilies designed to encourage, pro- <br />mote and secure! the IT,aXimflm beneficiel use and control of such <br />water resources and the development of additional water supplies <br />be carried out. Ttle Legislature commands di ligent enforcelllent of <br />laws concerning ~ancelation, release and discharge of excessive <br />unused claims to waters to the end that such excessive unused <br />amounts may be made available for appropriation and beneficial use <br />by the pUDlic. <br />The State Enginaer is further authorized to and employs <br />watermasters to servo finder his juri sdiction in administering both <br />the ground and surface water laws of the State of Oregon, another <br />effective cons~rvation move. <br />Aith full recognition of the statutory directIves and <br />autborities that 1 have been quotlnv. we still have not resolved <br />