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<br />separate entities. They are merely the total of many component <br /> <br />parts. National goals are at the best difficult to define and are <br /> <br />constantly changing. If regional objectives must be subjugated to <br /> <br />some mystic and ever changing national goal. then this nation is <br /> <br />doomed to stagnation. We therefore urge that the proposed principles <br /> <br />follow the mandate prescribed by Congress. <br /> <br />We note that the Council reserves the authority to amend <br /> <br />whatever standards are adopted from time to time. This provision <br /> <br />appears to be necessary and in accordance with the powers granted <br /> <br />by the Congress. However, we find neither comfort nor justification <br /> <br />in the statement that such amendments are subject to concurrence by <br /> <br />the Office of Management and Budget. The question naturally arises <br /> <br />as to whether or not Congress created a Water Resources Councilor <br /> <br />a subservient arm of the Office of Management and Budget. A careful <br /> <br />reading of the Water Resources Planning Act does not reveal that <br /> <br />the Office of Management and Budget was to play any part in the <br /> <br />formulation of water resource planning principles. This is a futile <br /> <br />argument. but we make it anyway. <br /> <br />It has been reported that a former huckster for Lipton <br /> <br />tea has made the statement: <br /> <br />"All dams are an obscenity. Floods <br /> <br />and pestilence have been a means of controlling population." The <br /> <br />gentleman is entitled to his opinion, but there are others who would <br /> <br />disagree. There are people in West Virginia today, both living and <br /> <br />dead, who would certainly disagree. I know from past association <br /> <br />-9- <br />