WSP01373

• File Number: 8112.600
• Description: Arkansas White Red Basins Interagency Committee - AWRBIAC -- Reports
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 6/30/1957
• Title: 1956-57 Report of Arkansas White Red Basins -- Inter-Agency Committee
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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REPORT OF AD HOC COl,nU'!'J:J:;t; ON ECONOMIC BASE SURVEY
July 13, 1956

Pursuant to the resolution of the Arkansas-White-Red Basins
Inter-Agency Committee adopted in Nev Orleans, March 9, 1956, the
Economic Base Survey Ad Hoc Committee, chaired by the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare, was established. The charge given to
the Ad Hoc Committee was, "to stu~ and to consider bringing up to
date, the economic base data to include such things as population
trends, labor forces, economic studies of other agencies, with a ~iew
to determining resources utilization and whether the Ad Hoc Committee
should take action in some manner or go farther into this matter...."

The Ad Hoc Committee, consisting of representatives of the Depal~-
ments of Commerce, Labor, Agriculture, and Health, Education and Welfare;
and the States of Missouri, Louisiana and Kansas, held meetings on April
3, 20, and May 2 for the purpose of considering the charge. The group
determined at the first meeting that a canvass of the AWRBlAC members
should be IIBde to determine Wba.t ecollOlllic problems were of concern.
Letters were received from IIDst of the members. The contents of theae
letters are categorized as follows:

1. Point out and recOllllllend resolution of differences in the
project economic eVllJ.uation metllods now in use by the several agencies,
partiCularly the projected price versus current price differences.

2. Determine recent per ca.pita incomes in rural and urban area.s.

3. Determine population trends in both rural and urban areas
since 1950.

4. Bring up to date manufacturing statistics which were based
on 1947 information.

5. Provide coordination of economic data. in preparing plans for
sub-watersheds.

6. No effort be uade to revise Fart 11, Section I, of the AWR
Report unless there is specific need for such revision, for example,
to suppart a project Justification.

7. Investigate the "dust bowl" and its associated economiC problema.

8. Delineate and evaluate economic conditions in areas where mining
once flourished but now has stopped or is rapidly declining either in
price or mineral.

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