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CHARLES W. HODDE and directing the study. Other members and clerical and professional staff are being supplied by those agencies funded for the framework study. In addition to this regional framework study, we have two more detailed studies involving in one instanoe the Willamette River basin and the other the prainage into Puget Sound. These are inter- agency studies initiated several years ago and due for completion in 1969. Their progress is being close- ly monitored by the Commission staff, and a lot of pioneering in detailed joint planning is being done. Each of these studies involves just about every use and problem I have mentioned. Besides these three major studies, we have other river basin studies under way with, in many cases, joint efforts involved. In Oregon there are the John Day, Malheur, Umpqua, Coquille, and north- ern coast rivers under study and the Rogue recently compl~ted. In Idaho, the Upper Snake River study is just completed by the Corps of Engineers in cooper- ation with the Bureau of Reclamation, and studies are under way on the Portneuf and Lower Snake Rivers. The Clark Fork-Flathead and Spokane River studies involve areas in the States of Washington, Idaho and Montana. Studies are also being made in the 'Chehalis and Palouse basins in Washington State. In addition to these basin-witle comprehensive studies, there are a great many project studies under way by Federal agencies, local government and private parties. Each State has greatly accelerated research and water planning efforts under way relating to this resource and to State responsibilities in natural resource management. All these will be input to our regional planning. We are, as you know; involved in a treaty regarding the Columbia with Canada. Signing of this treaty a few years ago added a new dimension to our capabilities. With the storage and coordina- tion involved, spilling of flood waters is a disappearing phenomenon. This is not all good, although its benefits over the disadvantages creating new problems is ~ignificant. Floods do damage, but they also clean up beaches, flush out pollution, press back salt water intrusion up the Columbia, and replenish ground water supplies. Future development of some significant offstream storage sites will guarantee complete control of the Columbia except in much above average flow years. Water planning in the Pacific Northwest is an interesting and rewarding endeavor. Ours is not a situation of limited choices based upon preemption of t;he resource for survival needs. Multiple use, a phrase everybody uses, means a great range of uses both in and out of the stream channels of our rivers and creeks. The hydrologic character of the region,! involving substantial seasonal storage in the snow fields of our mountain ranges, as well as those in British Columbia to our north, make our daily and seasonal flows more predictable and usable than that of many areas of the Nation. Were I to com- pare our problem to that of the fashion designer of today, I would say that we can clothe the Pacific Northwest in a garment most fitting to her figure. We are not forced, at this time, to adopt the min- skirt model, except in those cases where it best displays Qur geography, and we do not intend to be stampeded into blindly following the fashions of other r~gions less favored. In the world of fashion, I have observed that to do so has caused a lot of knobby ~nees to be exposed that could more attract- ively have used the resources available. In the programs of the past fifty years and our planning for the next half century, we have an established pattern and a comprehensive goal. We expect to care for the needs of growth and survival while still keeping available to our people, both in and optside the Northwest, a regional character, a 'strong feature of which are the clear, cool, beautiful rivers that run to the sea. The engineering feats in the region are tremendous and will continue to excel. A t~ousand miles of slack water in the mightiest river of the Nation, behind man-made obstructions built In the past 35 years, with a minimum change -40-