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1 Development of outdoor recreation enter- prises on private land in rural areas is accelerating very rapidly. Many ranchers have found out that there is just as much money in handling dudes as there is cows and in some cases, the dudes are not much harder to herd around than the cows. There are two minor items. In one sense minor and they could be major. In national defense the SCS has established and maintains a nationwide system for rural radiological monitoring, including a network of 3,000 loca- tions with equipment and personnel trained to detect and measure radioactivity. These are people who are carrying out their regular work programs. This includes monitoring, interpret- ing, reporting findings, and developing recom- mendations for all agricultural land (except national forests), water, livestock, and farm commodities harvestable and storable on farms or in bin sites in case of atomic blasts. A second responsibility, in case of national emergency, is to give technical help to farmers and others in the selection of land for food and fiber prOduction and the conserva- tion, control, and disposal of water. This includes advice on land best suited to prOduc- tion of needed crops, land that cannot be used because of radiological contamination, and related matters. SCS is a member of the Colo- rado USDA Defense Committee. 1 The last one, pollution control, while the only basic legislation that we have that might be directly related to pollution control is Public Law 46, one of the major items in that law mentioned is the elimination of erosion and production of sediment and as you know, I think it is generally considered that sediment is about 5~/o of the national pollution problem. Since the amendment to the Great Plains program by the last Congress there are certain provi- sions in there to include pollution control