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<br />Gilbert IF. While <br /> <br />agency. I do recall Woodward telling with some embarrassment how he had <br />been ordered by the TV A board to go to the St. Louis office and tell them <br />that he was there to collect all the engi neering material that the TV A now <br />wanted. <br /> <br />Q: You didn't go back to Chicago immediately after you completed that report, <br />did you? <br /> <br />A: The National Planning Board became the National Resources Board on July <br />1, 1934, and the MVC became its Water Planning Committee, with Graves <br />dropping off. The NRB was abolished on June 7, 1935, and the National <br />Resources Committee was established in its place. There was established, <br />under the National Resources Committee, a series of specialty committees: <br />one on land, one on water, one on energy, and so on. The Water Resources <br />Committee then was appointed with Abel Wolman of Maryland as chairman <br />and with several of the members of the Mississippi Valley Committee on the <br />new Water Resources Committee. (A fine oral history by Wolman has been <br />prepared by Walter Hollander, Jr.) <br /> <br />A number of the Mississippi Valley Committee people didn't transfer over. <br />Barrows did, as did the representative of the Corps, with William Snow <br />replacing Edgerton. One representative each hum the Bureau of Reclamation, <br />the Soil Conservation Service, Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Geological Survey, <br />U.S. Public Health, and Federal Power Commission came in. I was asked to <br />serve on the staff of the new committee, which I did. In time T became <br />secretary of the Water Resources Committee and stayed with it and its <br />successors until 1940, when I went over to the Bureau of the Budget. <br /> <br />Q: What was your initial assignment for the Water Planning Committee under the <br />National Resources Board? <br /> <br />A: The first task of the Water Planning Committee was to prepare a section of <br />the report of the National Resources Board. The National Resources Board <br />had been requested by the President to prepare a report on national planning <br />and public works in relation to natural resources, including land use and wat(~r <br />resources. This it did in December of '34. It enlarged its activities and scope <br />of interest to the whole country, but proceeded then to examine all of the <br />problems of water policy, water data, ard modes of making decisions about <br />public works which had been described by the Mississippi Valley Committee. <br /> <br />11 <br />