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CARL H, BRONN citizens who pay for all Federal-State programs ought to try harder for: -Examination of interdcpendellce of Federal programs. -Describing the results of water projects in terms of National objectives. -And equity in the appraisal of project and program values, across the Budget Board! These principles would better our budgetary practices; they would thus promote the National well-being of peopl~, as well as of fish, wildlife, the "eco-systems" and the "biosphere"! - all im- portant to our future, all the targets of Federal programs, That is my message to YOll today, However, I'm going to post,script it to reinforce the "inter- dependency" principle-using three cases: These cases come from one thousand, nine hundred pages of testimony of non-governmental witnesses to a public works Appropriation Committee of the Congress. And some of those 1,900 pages are printed with nine lines to the inch-if you want to think about how hard you water people tried to pass the word! . FIRST CAlm-Columbia River Area: "Estimates from Washington State University Bulletin E, M, 2601 indicate that 22,900 new jobs would be created through the second half of this project, in the Columbia Basin...and this is in a healthful rural atmosphere with abundant recreational opportunitics-" Point: One authorized, unfunded project would aid all of these national objectives--new busi- nesses, new jobs, trained people, nearby recreation, urban-rural balance. SECOND CASE-South Atlantic Area: This testimony is from the manager of a cellophane plant-"the largest single cellophane plant in the world"- "During the period 1946 through 1965, we reduced the oxygen-consuming waste discharged to the Rappahanock River by one-half-even though production capacity had doubled!" Since 1965, management has put an $800,000 waste treatment plant into operation, ,and will put a half-million dollar plant into operation in 1970." ' "E" for effort. But do those costs for quality secure the ten million dollar annual payroll of this plant? No! Because of: Low Flow - "Studies indicate that even without any municipal or industrial discharges into the - r;, oxygen depletion will occur during periods of low river flow." Drou~ht - "Considerable difficulties were encountered in maintaining operations during the roughts of 1953, 1954, and 1966"-even though more than a million dollars was spent to stabilize water supply! And flood - "And despite every precaution. it is impossible to completely assure continuity of operations during flood conditions." This is just one of hundreds of cases-one selected at random-showing that programs toward National objectives will be frustrated when not backed up by multi-purpose water projects. And can you imagine the waste, the controversy, the all-round mess, if each river-water user tried to handle drought, flood, and nature's natural pollution all by his lonesome! The Rappahanock case was a random choice. Here's one chosen because it is a real marker - Tualatin . . , CASE THREE- The project has been gestating for 20 years, Under the project-by-project concept, it passed -14-