BOARD02242

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

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4. It will improve the arrangements
for the states to participate in the in-
vestigation, study, planning, and develop-
ment of water resources facilities.

5. It will provide assurance that all
proposed development, whether by Federal,
state, or local agencies, will be consistent
with the framework of development within a
given basin.

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6. It will provide the means for bring-
ing out and reconciling the interests of all
groups in a common development program.

7. It will provide a means for keeping
current the over-all plans for river basin
development. '

Now the list of things he thinks it will
not do:

'1. It will not expand Federal juris-
diction and responsibility in the field of
water resources development.

2. It will not give the Federal Govern-
ment additonal control over the water re-
sources of the states.

3. It will not detract from the author-
ity of the Congress to authorize and fund
projects.

4. It will not interfere with the
rights of states or the responsibilities
of state and local governments in the field
of water resources.

5. It will not interfere with or dis-
place existing compact commissions or other
intrabasin groups that are doing an adequate
job of comprehensive and coordinated planning.

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6. It will not take away or reduce the
existing authority of the Fede~al agencies for
the construction of water projects.'