BOARD01111

• Board Meeting Date: 6/3/1970
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

either military or contracts with power and
communications systems in which they have to
do construction work during the winter months.

Another program, a USDA program, which SCS
has the leadership responsibility for is the I
preparation of a National Inventory of Soil and
Water Conservation Needs. The inventory collects .. .
and summarizes information on soil resources,
land uses, probable land use adjustments, and
soil and water conservation treatment needed.

The first inventory was completed in 1961
and the national summary of data published in
1962. States and many counties print their own
reports. The second report of a revised Con-
servation Needs Inventory was completed in 1970.
The Colorado state report was published early
this year in cooperation with the State Soil
Conservation Board and the Colorado Association
of Soil Conservation Districts.

Various analyses of the data are being made
by agencies and groups both in and out of govern-
ment. Periodic surveys will keep the inventory
up to date.

The SCS also has departmental leadership
fOr watershed protection and flood prevention
work which combines soil and water conservation
on land with control and use of runoff by means
of upstream structures. This work is author-
ized by the Omnibus Flood Control Act of 1936,
the Flood Control Act of 1944, and the Water-
shed Protection and Flood Prevention Act. We
don't have any operations in Colorado on this
particular facet of flood prevention programs.
This involves the 11 authorized watersheds under
those authorizations. There are two in cali- I
fornia, one or more in Texas, and most of them
otherwise are in the southeast and midwest

shtates. These arel la~gle.watersheds'dsomhe of ~
t em larger than 0 m~ l~on acres an t e pro-
gram has been going on ever since the end of
World War II. A few, if any of them, are