BOARD02242

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

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In addition to these, I talked with IvaI
Goslin yesterday in Washington, meeting with
the NRA committee on this problem, and they
have not come up with anything as detailed yet
as either the Council of state Governments or
our own Investigation Commission has come up
with. However, the principles, which they have
established and which they worked toward, are
that the leadership of the states in the field
of water resources planning and development Should
be retained. The federal law should be somewhat
as it is but they do think that provision should
be made to provide a little better coordination
between the federal departments in order that over-
lapping and duplication will not result. They do
not believe, of course, as we all do, that there
should be any federal encroachment into the field
of administration and into the field of state
policy.

To get back to Congressman Aspinall for a
moment, he was questioned at quite some length
after his presentation at the meeting of the
Council of State Governments in Dallas. Congress-
man Aspinall assured all of us there, and this
is on the record of that meeting, that he has
two things in mind. First, is to insure that the
things he thinks the bill will accomplish are
accomplished: secondly, to insure that the things
he feels it does not do will not be possible of
being done, as it is finally written. To this end
he is willing to go along with amendments which
will accomplish these purposes and prevent the
accomplishment of the undesirable things. In
addition he wants to establish a complete legis-
lative record of all of the things that are in-
tended for this bill and all of the things that
are not intended for this bill so that any future
interpretation in contradiction to what we and he
think the bill should do will not be possible.

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This, of course, will be the aim of the
hearings of the Committee in Congress. So I do
think we would be perfectly justified in what-
ever action we take to incorporate these things
into the testimony or evidence which we will
present so that we are absolutely certain in the
future that a misinterpretation of this bill
cannot be made.