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GO~443 CALIFORNIA California has a comprehensive wild and Scenic Rivers system, approved by the legislature in 1972. To date, approximately 4,033 miles of streams have been designated. The system is comprised of five main stems, and numerous tributaries. In one case, an entire drainage basin was designated. California's is thus the most extensive State Wild and Scenic Rivers P~ogram in the nation. ~ As is the case with the national program, California's legislation provides for three classes of rivers, wild, scenic and recreational, with the classifications reflecting degrees of development along the river and its corridor. The act specifically prohibits impoundment of any designated rivers. Administration of the system is the responsibility of the Secretary of the Resources Agency, and he is required to determine classifications, to prepare management plans in close cooper~tion with local governments, and to suhmit the plans to the legislature, Rivers shall be administered"...without unreasonably limiting lumbering, grazing, and other resource uses, when the extent and nature of such uses do not conflict with public use and enjoyment of these values." ~mnagement plans have been completed for four rivers and are being drawn up presently for four others, , California law also provides for preparation of Protected Waterways, Plans. The law states that: "The Resource Agency and affected local aeencies shall prepare detailed waterway management plans which shall include provisions for necessary and desirable flood control, water conservation, recreation, fish and wildlife preservation and enhancement, water quality protection and enhancement, streamflow augmentation, and free-floWing rivers, segments, or tributaries..."for selected rivers, ' The California legislation recommends regulations in the form of land use controls, but is unable to mandate local or federal government management activities for resource protection. In July 1980, Governor Brown petitioned the Secretary of the Interior to have the bulk of the existing California \,ild and Scenic River System designated as components of the National System under the provisions of Section 2 (a)(ii)of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. The rivers proposed included the Klamath, Smith, Trinity, and Eel River Systems and the Lower American River - a total of 4006 miles. The former Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service determined that 1246 miles of the proposed rivers met the criteria and were eligible for inclusion in the System. . A total of 1235 miles of rivers were designated. The difference between the original 4006 miles in the State's proposal and the 1235 miles actually designated, is accounted for in the Smith River drainage where the State System included all of the tributaries and the eligibility evaluation found only 38 of these tributaries to meet the criteria for the National System. In the spring of 1981, new State Wild and Scenic Rivers legislation was introduced in the California Legislature (note: The bill introduced last year 5