Additional information-Continued Rose, R. C., president, Drainage District No. 17, statement.. Rumsfeld, Hon. Donald, a Representative in Congress from the State Page 335 90 75 St Germain, Hon. Fernand J., a Representative in Congress from the 167 Sanders, Carl E., Governor of Georgia, letters on Flint River.. Schmidhauser, Hon. John R., a Representative in Congress from the State of Iowa, statement.. 237 291 333 Schultz, Earl R., Cape Girardeau, Mo., statement.. 337 296 Senner, Hon. George F., Jr., a Representative in Congress from the 365 Sikes, Hon. Robert L. F., a Representative in Congress from the 37 Sklar, Erwin, mayor of Oceanside, Calif., and president of the Ocean- 126 Skubitz, Hon. Joe, a Representative in Congress from the State of Talcott, Hon. Burt L., a Representative in Congress from the State 120 128 Taylor County commissioners, statement.. 290 Tucker Chapter, Izaak Walton League of America, statement.. Udall, Hon. Morris K., a Representative in Congress from the State 399 151 Vandiver, S. Ernest, Governor of Georgia, letter to Hon. G. Elliott 263 Waggonner, Hon. Joe D., Jr., a Representative in Congress from the 342 White, Hon. Richard C., a Representative in Congress from the State 110 Wildy, Earl, chairman, Drainage District No. 16, statement. 333 Willis, Hon. Edwin E., a Representative in Congress from the State 103 Woodruff, J. W., Jr., chairman, Georgia Waterways Commission, 290 OMNIBUS RIVERS AND HARBORS AND FLOOD CONTROL BILLS-1965 MONDAY, JULY 26, 1965 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS AND SUBCOMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS, Washington, D.C. The subcommittees met at 10 a.m., room 2167, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Robert E. Jones, Jr. (acting chairman) presiding. Mr. JONES. The subcommittee will come to order. I regret to inform the subcommittee that Mr. Blatnik, the chairman of the subcommittee, went out to Minnesota during the weekend and he has been ailing some. The doctors have put him in the hospital and delayed his coming back. For that reason, I will preside over the Rivers and Harbors Subcommittee. I have a prepared statement presented to the committee that I would not take the time to read, in view of the fact that we have some 30 projects scheduled for consideration today. Without objection, the statement will be made a part of the record at this point. (The statement follows:) The Public Works Committee needs to realine its activities to be able fully to meet the demands of a rapidly growing economy in the matter of water resource development. We need to realize that in vast areas of this Nation we are running out of good water. We need to realize that primarily we possess adequate water but that it is maldistributed. We need to recognize that the water we have must be used over and over again. We need to develop the water we have so it can be utilized to its maximum. This is true conservation. We need to realize that quality of water is as important as quantity. The Public Works Committee has in the past created policies for better utilization of our limited supplies of water. We have initiated legislation to permit "quality control," to permit municipalities to contract for domestic water in Federal projects, and to create recreational and fish and wildlife opportunities for our people. We have created programs of pollution control and pollution research. These are all valuable supplements to a program which was intially formulated to prevent floods and to develop navigation. But times change. Demands for water change. We live in a fast-changing world. Our concepts of resource development can no longer remain on a single project-single purpose basis. We must produce the optimum benefits from every water source in this country. I do not believe we can any longer determine the desirability of a project on a benefit-cost ratio alone. We must think in terms of future growth and future need. We must remember that when we pass up the total development of a reservoir site, for example, it may be lost forever. Rarely, if ever, well we develop a project for one-puropse use. We must make a full inventory of needs and satisfy those needs to the extent possible in each project. 1 |