Reclamation Era, Volumes 51-54

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Bureau of Reclamation, 1965 - Irrigation

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Page 45 - As the nation's principal conservation agency, the Department of the Interior has basic responsibilities to protect and conserve our land and water, energy and minerals, fish and wildlife, parks and recreation areas, and to ensure the wise use of all these resources.
Page 69 - Interior bears a special obligation to assure that our expendable resources contribute their full measure to the progress, prosperity, and security of America, now and in the future. The...
Page 60 - In Its assigned function as the Nation's principal natural resource agency, the Department of the Interior bears a special obligation to assure that our expendable resources are conserved, that renewable resources are managed to produce optimum yields, and that all resources contribute their full measure to the progress, prosperity, and security of America, now and In the future.
Page 36 - ... for full utilization of the advantages of diversity of loads because of seasonal and time differences. The benefits of such Integration were noted by President Kennedy in his message of February 23, 1961. to Congress on the subject of natural resources. President Kennedy announced then that he had directed the Secretary of the Interior to “develop plans for the early interconnection of areas served by that Department's marketing agencies with adequate common-carrier transmiesdon lines.” (d)...
Page 113 - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE DIVISION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS WASHINGTON, DC 2O4O2 OFFICIAL BUSINESS POSTAGE AND...
Page 27 - Today, we proclaim our refusal to be strangled by the wastes of civilization," said the President. The President has now proposed that the Federal Water Pollution Control Agency as a unit be transferred from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to the Department of the Interior. As a matter of principle, the league Is less concerned about where the program is housed...
Page 106 - This report responds to your request that we review the adequacy of public access to land managed by the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
Page 24 - ... to this urgent task ? Even at the risk of being called dreamers, you must ask these questions, and seek the answers. Unless you do, you will not measure the true dimension of mankind's great need. You must chart the specific steps toward a more abundant future. One step must be this: to quicken the pace of science and technology. Last week, I signed an Act of Congress to make possible a new plant which will more than double the world's present capacity for desalting water. A decade ago, the best...
Page 44 - Speech will be formed to include the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The...
Page 24 - The United States is prepared to join others in establishing a network of regional Water Resource Centers. We will provide our fair share of the expert assistance, the supplies and the equipment, and the financing.

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