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

completed but there is roughly $25 to $30 million
expended by USDA each year in structural measures
in completing those large watersheds.

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The SCS helps state and local governments
plan and execute the upstream jobs in coopera-
tion with the Forest Service and other federal.
state and local agencies. The Corps of Engineers.
the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of Interior.
work on the main jobs. SCS correlates its work
with that of the Corps, Bureau of Reclamation.
Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Outdoor
Recreation. and other agencies dealing with
stream control and other water-resources man-
agement.

On the small watershed program which re-
lates to Public Law 566. here again the SCS ~as
USDA administrative leadership for federal
assistance to local organizations for planning
and carrying out small watershed projects under
the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention
Act. This act provides for technical and
financial assistance by USDA to state and other
local organizations for land treatment. flood
prevention. irrigation. drainage. public recrea-
tional or fish and wildlife developments, and
municipal or industrial water supplies on water-
sheds up to 250,000 acres in size. Incidentally.
no impounding or detention structure under that
act can exceed a total of 25,000 acre-feet of
storage although you can have any combination
you may desire for purposes within that combin-
ation. No flood prevention dam in itself can
exceed 12.500 acre-feet of detention storage.
This is to eliminate the conflict of work under
this act with other federal authorizations.

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By 1970 SCS had provided planning assistance
to 1,551 watersheds totaling 62 million acres.
Of these, 970 watershed projects had completed
their plans and obtained approval to proceed
with operations with the needed federal assist-
ance. Construction had started on 434 projects
and had been completed on 264.