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003353 To implement this policy, Congress established the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and designated all or por- tions of eight rivers as original compo- nents of that system to be administered by the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture. They are: the Rio Grande, N,M.; Saint Croix, Minn. -Wis. ; and the Wolf, Wis. to be administered by the Interior Department; the Eleven Point, Mo.; Mid- dle Fork of the Feather, Calif.; Middle Fork of the Clearwater, and the Middle Fork of the Salmon in Idaho to be adminis- tered by the Department of Agriculture; and the Rogue in Ore. to be administered jointly by the two Departments. The Act also designates 27 other rivers for detailed study as potential ad- ditions to the national system, These stud- ies are conducted by study teams under the leadership of the Department of the In- terior or the Department of Agriculture, who work in close cooperation with States, their political subdivisions, and concerned Federal agencies, are scheduled for com- pletion by October 1978. They will form the basis of reports to the President and Congress. Each study report will contain information and make recommendations about the river's eligibility for inclusion in the national system, and indicate how uses of the land and water would be en- hanced, foreclosed, or curtailed if the river and its adjacent lands were added to the national system. . The task of preserving and adminis- ... One of ,he study rivers, the tower Saint Croix, Minn., Wis., was added to the system by Public law 92-560 on October 25, 1972.