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<br />LETTER FROM THE BUREAU OF THE BUDGET
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<br />EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PllESIDENT,
<br />BUREAU OF THE B-crDGET,
<br />Washington, D. 0., February 16, 1944.
<br />The Honorable the SECRETARY OF WAR.
<br />My DEAR MR. SECRETARY: Reference is made to your letter of
<br />January 7, ]944, transmitting in accordance with section 4 of Execu-
<br />tive ,Order No. 9384, dated October 4, 1943, the proposed report of
<br />the Chief of Engineers on a review of reports on the Missouri River,
<br />with a view to flood control along the main stell from Sioux City, Iowa,
<br />to its mouth, and requesting advice as to the relationship of the
<br />proposed report to the program of the President.
<br />A preliminary reviow of this proposed report indicates the following
<br />to be the situation:
<br />1. A difference of opinion appelll'S to exist between the Corps of
<br />Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation over the use and control of
<br />the waters of the Missouri River and its tributaries west of, or entering
<br />above, Sioux City, Iowa, although the exact nature of these differences
<br />cannot be ascertainod until the report of the Bureau of Reclamation
<br />for the area is completed and submitted to the Bureau of !,he Budget,
<br />in accordance with section 4 of Executive Order No. 9384. In
<br />response to my inquiry of January 18, 19<14, a copy of which I sent to
<br />you, the Acting Secretary of the Interior, under date of January 22,
<br />1944, advised me that the Bureau of Reclama!iou is currently com-
<br />pleting, after a 5-year study, and will have available on May I, 1944,
<br />a report on the Missouri River Basin directed primarily toward the
<br />development of irrigation, hydrocleetrie power production, and other
<br />beneficial uses of water. Also, until that time, I will not have an
<br />estimate of those Federal expenditures to be proposed under .the plan
<br />of the Bureau of Reclamation that will be in addition to the amounts
<br />recommended to be authorized under the plan proposed by the Chief
<br />of Engineers. .
<br />2. It appears that the flood-control plan proposed for the Missouri
<br />River by the Chief of Engineers will not be complete without supple-
<br />mentary action by other departments of the Government. In re-
<br />sponse to my in'luiry of January 21, 1944, a ,copy of which I sent to
<br />you, the Acting Secretary of Agriculture, under date of February 4,
<br />1944, advises me that in the opinion of the Department of Agriculture
<br />. all proposals for multiple-purpose treatment of river basins should
<br />iLinclude consideration of the contribution that land-lIse treatment
<br />"'Cllb properly make, and particularly so in river basins presenting as.
<br />serious erosion and siltation problems as the Missouri. While the
<br />Department, of Agriculture has not yet developed specific prograIlls
<br />of land-uBe treatment in this area to supplement the plan proposed by
<br />the Chief of Engineers, the Department has made a very rough
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