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ABDA OFFICERS Glade Kirkpatrick Chairman Emeritus Jack Story Chairman of the Board Jacques Cunningham President Frank Chitwood First Vice President Ed Morris Secretary-Treasurer ABDA BOARD OF DIREClORS HoustonAdams ........... ...... ........ Tulsa, Oklahoma Harris Bateman... '... '... ....... ........Tulsa, Oklahoma Frank Chitwood ....." ,..,...."., ..,.., Tulsa, Oklahoma Jacques Cunningham .................... Tulsa, Oklahoma James O. Foster ........................4 Wichita, Kansas GeorgeGates . ..... ........... ........ ...Tulsa, Oklahoma Wallace Gieringer .................. . Pine Bluff, Arkansas Gale A. Graham ........,.. ..,.. .,....,..,Joplin, Missouri R. PauIHenry .,..............,..........Tulsa, Oklahoma Glade R. Kirkpatrick ..................., Tulsa, Oklahoma Robert J, LaFortune ..,',..""""."", Tulsa, Oklahoma Ed Morris ".......,...., .,....,.. ..,.. ..,Tulsa, Oklahoma Bruce Raines. ........ ", .......... .......Tulsa, Oklahoma Harold Scoggins".",..".." ., , " Muskogee, Oklahoma JackStory ..... .,....,..,... ........ ..,... Tulsa, Oklahoma Charles L. Thompson.................. Pueblo, Colorado Arkansas Basin Development AsSOciation, Inc. Annual Meeting, ThIsa~ Oklahoma Platform Adopled March 9, 191!4 Water Resources Program: The Arkansas Basin Development Association conunends the 98th Congress of the United States, and especially the delegations frOm Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Missouri for appropriating funds for FY 1985 to continue study, planning and construction of essential projects necessary for water resource man- agement, particularly navigation, flood control, water quality and supply, and interbasin diversion in the Ar- kansas River Basin. Also, we commend Governor Ointon of Arkansas, Governor Lamm of Colorado, Governor Carlin of Kan- sas, Governor Bond of Missouri, and Governor Nigh of Oklahoma for making possible through their appoint- ments to the Arkansas River Basin Interstate Committee a unified appearance before the Congress in behalf of the Arkansas Basin. We respectfully request that the Congress of the United States include in the next Authorization Bill the projects in the Arkansas River Basin recommended by Federal Agencies~ We urge the Congress to appropriate the amounts required for orderly water resource man- agement of the Basin to include study, planning, and construction funds. Federal and State Support: We commend the Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Soil Conservation Service and the Water Resource Agencies of the States of Arkansas, Col- orado, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma for their zeal, efficiency and cooperation in continuing essential work and for recognizing the values that Water resotIrce de- velopment contributes to the economic well-being and environmental protection of ~e Nation. National Water Resources Policy: Present water resources policy is contained in a wide variety of Congressional Acts and administrative rules and regulations. We believe that policy refOrm will not be brought about by pie~emea1 studies or tinkering with programs and procedures. We urge the Adminis- tration and the Congress to develop a National Water Resources Policy based on clearly stated goals and objec- tives which recognize the regional differences, and upon which a viable National Water Resource Program can be based, We especiaJIy urge the Administration to declare that they are committed to developing the water resources of the Nation to meet the future needs of the people, Water and Related Land Resources Management: , Expanded population needs and energy require- ments demand an acceleration of water resources and C'onservation management programs by government at all levels - Federal, State and Local. In view of these ur- gent and growing national requirements, it is regrettable Jhat the Administration is endeavming to reduce the Federal support of water and related land reSOurces. Such action will only delay the projects that are needed by America since many projects require major support by the Federal Government if they are to succeed. Water Development Criteria: ' We support the development of meaningful prin- ciples and standards for planning and evaluating water and related land resources, particularly the establish- ment of a reasonable discount rate. Evaluation proce- dures must be clear, concise and capable of being understood and used by all agencies. Further, this Asso': dation urges that regional development benefits be in- cluded in evaluating all water resource projects. The basic criteria must be established by and controlled' by the Congress for they must ultimately approve the pro- grams and projects, While we recognize the importance to our Nation of protecting it's plant, fish, and wildlife resources, we op- pose unreasonable standards and requirements that suppress .reasonable development of the Nation's water resources under the guise of protecting plant, fish and wildlife, Construction of Water and Land Resources: Nature is in a constant process of change. Modem man has sought to direct the pattern of change so it ben- efits both himself and his environment. Man has some- times damaged his environment while simultaneously doing a creditable job of providing for his needs over the centuries. Man and Environment to survive must be compati- ble and serve one another. Man must, therefore, obtain maximum ecological benefits from his environ- ment by wisely tilling the soil; harvesting Nature's crops of food and fiber, wildlife, fish and timber; preserving Nature's esthetics; storing the surplus, such as water for future needs; controlling runoff that destroys Nature's bounties; providing efficient transportation and estab- lishing desirable communities. Likewise, man must eliminate ecological waste by not befouling land and water; by wisely using Nature's surpluses of land, water, wood, minerals, and products of the land. to meet the needs of man. 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