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<br />-6- <br /> <br />financed urban parks and charge the float fishermen for <br />enjoying the wild rivers system? <br /> <br />The Mid-West Electric Consumers Association is convinced <br />that the high discount rates under consideration will produce <br />results completely different from the results assumed by their <br />sponsors and supporters. <br /> <br />Does the National Administration really want to adopt and <br />pursue policies that will force more and more people into the <br />nation's congested metropolitan centers? Will doing so achieve <br />desirable social or economic goals? Will it enhance the <br />national environment? <br /> <br />Do the thirteen organizations really want to stifle econ- <br />omic growth in the High Plains States by terminating Federal <br />participation in resource Gevelopment? Are they willing to <br />see the stringent standards they advocate applied to all public <br />programs and activities? Do they really advocate giving the <br />Executive Branch authority to overturn Acts of Congress by <br />executive rule making? Can it really be that they oppose <br />Federal assistance to those regions of the country that have <br />failed to share in economic growth? <br /> <br />Are our public officials and citizen organizations so <br />unsophisticated and lacking skills that they must terminate <br />water resource development completely to stop the construction <br />of "destructive projects"? Will we proceed on this b.asis <br />against all public programs where questionable decisions <br />have been made? Do we terminate urban redevelopment because <br />of the program's short-falls? We can all identify freeways <br />that should have been left unbuilt -- does their construction <br />justify terminating the farm to market road program? <br /> <br />We have heard it said that a few units in the National <br />Park System do not meet the high standards we like to expect <br />of National Parks. Does their existence justify liquidating <br />the System? Rubbish: <br /> <br />The Mid-West Electric Consumers Association is willing <br />to agree that there are potential benefits from the re-exam- <br />ination of resource development that has been stimulated by <br />the Council's studies and proposals. Like all other public <br />activities, these programs have had their great successes. <br />We have little doubt that there are instances more sophisticated <br />planning and decision making would have produced better results. <br />