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<br />motion appoint a member to represent the State. This particular provision has drawn <br />considerable critical comments. <br /> <br />Among the many duties of the Commission would be the submitting of a report once <br />a year to the Water Resources Council. Such report would be transmitted through the <br />President to the Congress with copies to the Governors and heads of Federal agencies. <br />Before such report is sent to the Council, copies would be transmitted to the Governor of <br />each concerned State and heads of Federal agencies for review and comments. There is a <br />provision that each member of the River Basin Commission, other than the Chairman, <br />shall from time to time report on the work of the Commission to the head of the Federal <br />agency, department, or Governor of the State. <br /> <br />To summarize on Title II, this bill is apparently not intended to place in the hands of <br />aCommission the power of administration that rests in Cabinet members and Governors <br />of the States, It would give status to river basin interiagency committees, as planning <br />bodies, by calling them River Basin Commissions. Such status does not exist under the <br />voluntary plan by which the Pacific Southwest, Colum~ia, and other inter-agency <br />committees are now operating. <br /> <br />. Title III of the bill provides for Federal financial assistance to the states for <br />comprehensive planning. <br /> <br /> <br />"Then, with the passage of the first Federal Water Pollution Control <br />Act (Public Law 845) in 1948, there was a provision to provide one <br />million dollars a year to the State Agencies to aid them in improving <br />their programs. The State Agencies at that time were themselves <br />putting up a total of two million dollars in all thel States for adminis- <br />tering State water pollution programs. In 1953, I after five years of <br />the grant-in-aid program, the States had increa$ed their amount of <br />money to four million dollars. The grant-in-aid !programs were then <br />dropped for about four years. The State appropriations remained at <br />about the same level. The passage of anew Federal Water Pollution <br />Control Act (Public Law 660) in 1956 provided three million dollars <br /> <br />- 12 - <br />