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<br /> <br />$50,000 er year) in funding of watershed planning parties, <br /> <br />The Resources Council is authorized to enter into <br />negotiations and agreements with the Federal government in <br />connectifn with Federal flood control reservoirs but such <br />agreemeilllts are not binding upon the State until enacted into law <br />by the le1gislature, <br /> <br />,b, Interstate <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Other than interstate cpmpacts resolving boundary <br />disputes, Iowa is not involved i1il any interstate compacts <br />involving water and related lan4 resources, <br /> <br />c, With political s) divisions <br /> <br />State cooperation in w ter and related land resource <br />projects of its political subdivi ion generally is limited to <br />furnishing technical and adviso y services, Coordination <br />, <br />generally is achieved by a stat~tory requirement for submission <br />of project plans by the local un"t of government to the appropriate <br />state agency for review and ap roval prior to implementation, <br /> <br />d, Multipurpose op rations <br /> <br /> <br />Iowa is following the n tional trend with regard to <br />multipurpose water resource p ojects, Perhaps "following" is an <br />apt term since few projects inv:olving multipurpose operations <br />have actually been implemente4 in Iowa, To date, nearly all <br />multipurpose operations in the :State involve cooperation between <br />the State Conservation Commislsion in connection with Federal <br />water resource projects by combining various state recreational <br />objectives with Federal objectives of erosion control, flood <br />control or low flow augmentation, The Commission and the 1967 <br />legislature are considering incremental funding of an alternative <br />plan for construction of remedial works required in connection <br />with construction of the SaylorviUe Dam and Reservoir on the <br />Des Moines River near Des Moines, The subimpoundment <br />formed by the alternative construction would provide the nucleus <br />of a large recreational complex at a bargain price without <br />materially affecting the flood control and low flow augmentation <br />benefits derived from the principal federal project. <br /> <br />52 <br />