BOARD01111

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

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development needs and opportunities for economic
development of the resources by the year 2020
based on population growth, industrial, agricul-
tural and other developments. For the most part
existing data from all sources is used in devel-
oping resource inventories and other data. First
review drafts of the report and some 19 appen-
dices are now being assembled and final drafts
will be substantially complete in fiscal year
1971.

Type IV surveys are USDA river basin studies
carried out in cooperation with a state agency,
generally for assistance in developing a state
water plan and in identifying potentially feasi-
ble small watershed projects. In Colorado your
Board is the designated state agency that we
work with.

To date in Colorado Type IV studies com-
pleted and reports published include the Gunni-
son River, the colorado River in Colorado, the
yampa River and the White River.

Type IV studies are under way for the San
Juan River in Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico,
and the Dolores River. A Type IV survey will be
initiated on the Rio Grande River in Colorado
in cooperation with the Colorado Water Conser-
vation Board early this summer or fall.

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Another very important SCS program in Colo-
rado is the Great Plains conservation program
authorized by Public Law 1021. It is a program
that is limited to the arid parts of the ten
Great Plains states. It may include various
measures to control either wind or water erosion
and to improve the use of the land. In return
for the work that the farmer or rancher does, the
federal government may share the cost of land
use changes and practices that are in the public
interest because of the importance of the hazards
in the Great Plains areas.

The participant signs a contract with the