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Although federaily-chartered corporations for river basin management such as the TVA were never duplicated elsewhere in the United States, other types of river basin organizations soon followed. The 1930's depression, coupled with droughts, poor land use and resource management practices and later, major floods, kept the concept of river basin development and basinwide planning and management alive and flour ishing for several decades. In the 1930's and 1940's a number of river basin organizations were created or encouraged by the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and its "New Deal" agencies, such as the National Resources Committee and National Resources Planning Board. These organizations included regional committees and commissions composed entirely of federal agencies, and later of both state and federal representatives. In the Missouri River basin, such organizations included the Great Plains Committee, the Northern Great Plains Committee, the Missouri Valley Regional Planning Commission and, according to one author, the Missouri River States Committee (Harley, 1983)" The National Resources Planning Board was abolished in 1943. Its river basin coordination function was then assumed by the Federal Inter-Agency River Basin Committee, an affiliation of the Departments of Agriculture, Army, Interior and the Federal Power Commission. The FIARBC continued the government's policy of fostering river basin management organizations by creating several mini-versions of itself for specific river basins. These regional interagency river basin commi ttees included state governments as well as federal agencies in their membership. The FIARBC created the Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee in 1945, and it existed for 27 years, until the states of the Missouri River basin requested establishment of a river basin commission under the provisions of Title II of the Water Resources Planning Act of 1965. <. -6-