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'..'l<~.&\. ~t~a 002521. ':@i;~< l.~~"> '~1.}?Z \l> - 4 - T disposal systems rests with the departments. Legislation adopted last year in Missouri and Nebraska. created water pollution boards with over- all authority for a pollution control program to be administered by the departments of health. In all of the states there is a special division of sanitary engineering or environmental sanitation which includes the technical work necessary for administering the programs. In virtually all of the states, the fish and game commissions have some pollution con- trol functions where fish and wildlife are affected. It is difficult in some states to segregate all water pollution control and water supply quality program funds and personnel, since the divisions in the health department administering these programs have other functions not related to water, However, on the basis of estimates made by the agencies in most states, supplemented by figures from the U. S. Public Health Service, it is possible to get a general idea of the magnitude of the pollution control programs and of at least some of the water supply quality control programs, The estimated funds available for these purposes range all the way from $267,300 in Minnesota to $30,385 in Montana. There is a similar spread in the estimated full-time equivalents for professional personnel devoting their attention to these programs, ranging from 32 in Minnesota to 2 in Wyoming. Fish and Game ProRrams The water resource activities of fish and game agencies, as dis- tinguished from strictly fish and wildlife management functions, vary considerably in scope and kind. All of these agencies, in the Missouri Valley at 1eas~carry on some activities involving water resource manage- ment,regulation and control in connection with Dinge1l-Johnson habitat restoration and preservation programs, Most also have some pollution control activities. Some go well beyond this and participate in fairly extensive watershed management programs, including water control struc- tures for lake level control, and impoundment, erosion control, watershed protection, and channel improvement. These agencies also in some cases supervise and regulate the operation of navigation and. channel improve- ment structures to maintain fish and wildlife areas. It is exceedingly difficult to allocate total fish and game agen- cy appropriations and personnel between fish and wildlife management func- tions per se, land improvement programs and water resource programs. The tables in Appendix A include the estimates of those agencies that were able to make them. Other Water Resource Activities There are a number of water resource activities carried on by state agencies which are primarily concerned with other resources or other programs. A number of agricultural programs include aspects of signifi- cance for water resource management. Soil conservation programs are ad- ministered primarily by local districts,. but some state funds are in- volved, and state soil conservation commissions give some direction and provide 11.aison for some purposes with the U. S. Soil Conservation Service.. State forestry programs inVOlve wate~ resource management. Park and recre~tio.n programs. frequently center around water facilities and many