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oonnR: . due to the large sections of unmapped areas. It \1i11 be 15 years be- fore adequate maps can be produced for the entire Basin at the rate of expenditure now being followedo The Fish and V1ildlife Service has practially completed their pre- liminary investiGations of all of the proposed reservoir sites which may possibly be under construction during the nsxt few years and are nOH able to devote a Great deal of their attention to the development of a basin-wide pro~rem for fish and wildlife covering the entire area. Many of their activities are also beinG devoted to the perfecting of development plans at certain reservoirs in anticipation of early con- structiono Likewise the National Park Service has now caught up \lith their preliminary investiGation of recreational features at numerous reser- voirs and are devoting a large part of their activity to working out their detaileQ recreational plans for certain reservoirs and an over- all basin-wide recreational program. . The Bureau of clines, after having caught up with investieations of numerous metallic and nonmetallic possibilities in the Basin are reorienting their basin plans toward greater enphasis on statistical and economic data concerning the mineral industrJ. and better use of the Basin's enormous coal 0epositso The Bureau of Land l1anagement has made rapid strides in the de- termination of the proper utilization of the 16 million acres of pub- lic domain remaining in the Basin. Ue can now look fonrard to comple- tion of that phase of their \lork within a very few years. Emphasis is now beginnine to be placed upon measures for improv- ing the range capacities of the public domain and in determinations of when and how tc dispose of isolated tracts of public domain land. Reservoir riGhts-of-way and the farm layouts 00 numerous irri- gation systems have caused the Cadastral Survey Branch of the Bureau of Land l1anueement to speed up their activities in the restoration and relocation of land lines in the Basin. Great proeress has been made within the last twc years and another two years should see that facet of the entire development program well in line. A considerable portion of the funds made available to the National Park Service has, by cooperative agreement, been transferred to the Smithsonian Institution \lhich has accomplished a great deal toward preserving for historical records the archeological and paleontological features which have been disclosed within areas soon to b9 inundated by reservoir waters. , :3