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..- 0028:8 . . IV/IOIH G aemarks of Mr. PoweU Pierpoint General Counsel, U S Army At a meeting of tbe Missouri Basin Interagency Committee, Colorado Springs, Colo. 15 December 196Z I donOt suppose that I need to call to the attention of this audience President Kennedyo. lipecial message On the subject of Datual resources wbicb be sent to Congre.s shortly after be took office. However, I would Uke to repeat a very few words from it to set tbe atage for what I have to sa)'. In discussing tbe resouce policies of the Federal government President Kenned)' pointed out that: ;'In the past, these policies have overlapped and often conflicted. Funds were wa.ted on competing efforts. Widely differing standards were applied to measure the Federal contribution to similar projects. Funds and attention devoted to annual appropriations or immediate pressure a diverted energies away from long-range plan- ning for national economic growth. to And in dlacussl.ng his goals be said, loud and clear: .'This Administration accepts the goal urged by the Senate Select Committee to develop comprehensive river-baain plans by 1970, in cooperation with the individual states... This statement was not made lightly. What I shoul4 like to do tonight is to review for )'ou in rather general terms some of the progre.. that ha. been made since the President's initial message. In the month. whicb followed, many steps have been taken to strengthen comprehensive planning as a basic instrument of national resource polic)'. At the same timet we are moving vigoroual)' to carry out a cooperative planning effort scheduled to cover aU tbe Dationos major river basins by the end of tbis decade.