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• Board Meeting Date: 1/17/1962
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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state governments concur and are assured equit-
able and responsible representation on any
resulting body.

Item 4. There already exist a multitude
of agencies (federal, state, and local) with
water resources planning responsibilities. New
patterns of organization are being created and
used to meet varying regional situations. It
is dubious public policy to write "a priori"
decisions into federal statute as to the type
of coordinative federal-state or federal-inter-
state devices which should displace, parallel or
supersede existing approaches. Anylegislation
should protect and facilitate the selection of
the approach which meets the particular needs of
a given area or region.

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Item 5. States have a primary interest and
responsibility in water resources planning.
Any federal program for grants-in-aid in water
resources planning should supplement and not
replace state funds. Criteria for federal
grants-in-aid should reflect these principles.
If coordination is to be a condition precedent
to qualification for federal assistance, the
criteria must encourage state initiative and
experimentation and must not require the subordi-
nation of state planning activities to federal
agency programs.

Item 6. While it is undesirable for S. 2246
and H.R. 8177, or any bills which may evolve
from or replace them, to displace federal-state
coordinative mechanisms already operating effec-
tively and authorized by statute, it would be
equally indefensible to exclude federal programs
and agencies from the scope of the legislation
as Sec. 405 of the bills in its current form might
be interpreted to do.'

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The next thin~ I'd like to bring out is
that Congressman Aspinall, who is the sponsor
of this bill in the House, has on two public
occasions enunciated what he thinks this bill
will do and will not do. I will read this and
we will reproduce this for anyone that wants it.
The two times at which these opinions were enun-
ciated, and they are opinions of Congressman