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<br />a <br />c' <br />~ <br />w <br />0) <br />N <br /> <br />Vicksburg, Mississippi <br />'l'ulsa, Oklahoua <br />Fort Worth, Texas <br /> <br />January 30-31, 1951 <br />M/!.rch 13, 1951 <br />May 8, 1951 <br /> <br />III. Highlights of Year's Activities <br /> <br />At the July meeting in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for the <br />first time in the six years of interagency activities in the Arkansas- <br />White-Red Basins, the chairms.oship of AWRBIAC was assumed by an agency <br />other than the Department of the Arvr:i. At the opening of the meeting <br />the Department of Interior, represented by Paul L. Fickinger, Area <br />Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Muskogee, Oklahoma, accepted the <br />gavel, the traditional symbol of chairmanship, from the outgoing chair- <br />man, Brigadier ,General L. E. Seeman. A resolution co_nding the <br />excellent cooperation, leadership and guidance of General Seeman and <br />his Corps of Engineers I predecessors was read and adopted by the <br />Committee. Members voiced individual and group esteem and appreciation <br />to General Seeman and his staff for their significant and selfless <br />contributions to the vork of the Committee. <br /> <br />Water problems and potent1al. solutions vere the principal <br />theme of the July meet"ng which featured talks by Earl Mosley, Project <br />Engineer, Denver Water Board, Denver, Colorado, on the subject "Denver <br />Masters 1t.s Water Problems;" and by Ben F. Powell, Area Development <br />Engineer, Bureau of Reclamation, and Harold R. Christy, Superintendent <br />of Power and Water, Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, both from Pueblo, <br />Colorado, on the engineering and economic benefit aspects of the pro- <br />posed Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. Also, the Honorable Leslie A. Miller, <br />former Governor of Wyoming and a member of the Task Force on Water <br />Resources and Power for the Commission on Reorganization of the Executive <br />Branch of the Government (commonly known as the Second Hoover Commission), <br />reviewed and discussed with the Committee the major findings of the Task <br />Force with particular emphasis on those fields of business activities in <br />which the goveroment 1& engaged which JlaY infringe upon private enter- <br />prise. At the business session, AWRBIAC approved and ordered printed and <br />distributed its first annual report under the ney Charter. Formal reports <br />of the Ad Hoc Committee on Hydrologic Coordination and Economic Base <br />Survey were received and referred for consideration and action at the ' <br />September meeting. <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />A reviev of the work of the 84th Congress particularly as it <br />pertained to the development of the Arkansas-White-Red Basins vas <br />present.ed by the Honorable Ed. Edmondson, Congressman from the Second <br />Congressional Dhtrict of Oklahoma, at the September meeting. Mr. Carl <br />B. Brown, Director of the Planning Division of the Soil Conservation <br />Bervice, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. discussed the <br />objectives, scope and progress of the upstream watershed protection and <br />flood prevention program of the Department of Agriculture under Public <br /> <br />4 <br />