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<br />r~')n'lh:? <br />u \, 1) d d , ~ <br /> <br />The Senate Select Committee's findings received Presidential support. <br />Congressional action cqlminated in the passage of the Water Resources <br />Planning Ac~ of 1965. Under this Act comprehensive framework studies of <br />all river basins in the United States will be undertaken and kept up to <br />date. Several, including that of the Missouri Basin, were already <br />underway. <br /> <br />The Water Resources Planning Act also created the Water Resources <br />Council to effectuate the policy of the Act to encourage the conservation, <br />development, and utilization of water and related land resources on a <br />comprehensive and coordinated basis. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br /> <br />The Water Resources Planning Act also provides for matching grants to the <br />States to assist them in strengthening their planning capabilities in or- <br />der that they could participate in the development of comprehensive water <br />and related land resource plans and develop State plans. States in the <br />Missouri River Basin have received such grants. <br /> <br />THE MISSOURI BASIN <br /> <br />The Missouri River flows 2,315 miles from Three Forks, Montana, to <br />its mouth, a few miles above St. Louis, Missouri, where it joins the <br />Mississippi River, It drains an area of 529,000 square miles - one- <br />sixth of the entire Nation - including the State of Nebraska, and parts <br />of Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, <br />Iowa, and Minnesota, together with 9,700 square miles of Canada. Except <br />for the Rocky Mountains and the Black Hills, the Basin is characterized <br />by rolling or gently sloping plains and prairies. <br /> <br />5 <br /> <br />