List of major and minor river basins established by the Division of Water Quinnipiac River and western Con necticut coastal Housatonic River Pawcatuck River and eastern Con necticut coastal Connecticut River Thames River Massachusetts coastal Pascataqua River and New Hamp shire coastal Saco River and south Maine coastal Kennebec and Sheepscot Rivers North Maine coastal St. Croix River St. Johns River Lake Memphremagog St. Lawrence River Lake Erie-Niagara River Mohawk River Upper Hudson River Lower Hudson River North Atlantic: New Jersey-New York metropolitan area New Jersey coast Delaware River-Zone 1 Delaware River-Lehigh Delaware River-Schuylkill Delaware River-Zone 2 Delaware River-Zone 3 Delaware River-Zone 4 Susquehanna River-North Branch Susquehanna River-West Branch Susquehanna River-Juniata Susquehanna River-main stem Upper Chesapeake Bay and Maryland-Delaware coast Potomac River Rappahannock and York Rivers— Virginia coast James River Southeast: Chowan River Roanoke River Tar River Neuse River North Carolina coastal area Cape Fear River Yadkin-Pee Dee Rivers Catawba-Wateree Rivers Congaree River Southeast-Continued Santee-Cooper Rivers St. Marys-Nassau Rivers Suwanee River Ochlockonee-St. Marks Rivers Withlacoochee River Tampa Bay area Peace River Kissimmee River Florida east coastal area Lower Florida area Chattahoochee River Apalachicola River Choctawhatchee River Perdido-Escambia Rivers Tallapoosa River Coosa River Cahaba River Alabama River Upper Tombigbee River Warrior River Lower Tombigbee River Mobile Bay area Pascagoula River Tennessee River: Clinch River Holston River French Broad River Little Tennessee River Hiwassee River Elk River Duck River Tennessee River, main stem and minor tributaries Ohio River: Allegheny River Monongahela River Beaver River Muskingum River Little Kanawha River Hocking River Kanawha River Green River Wabash River List of major and minor river basins established by the Division of Water Supply and Pollution Control, Public Health Service, for basic collection purposes-Continued Missouri River: Upper Missouri River (main stem and tributaries to below mouth of Milk River) Yellowstone River Missouri-Souris Rivers (main stem and minor tributaries from mouth of Milk River to Spring Creek including Devils Lake and Souris River) central Missouri River (main stem and tributaries from above mouth Spring Creek to Niobrara River) Niobrara River James River Big Sioux River Lower Platte River (from origin at South Platte River Lower Missouri River (main stem and minor tributaries from Niobrara River to mouth) Grand-Chariton Rivers Osage-Gasconade Rivers Southwest-lower Mississippi: Upper Arkansas River above Kan- Arkansas River, Kansas-Colorado Grand (Neosho) River Lower Mississippi River, Cairo, North Canadian River Arkansas River Basin, Van Buren, Lower Mississippi-Yazoo Rivers Upper Red River, above Denison, Lower Red River, below Denison, Ouachita River Lower Mississippi-Big Black Riv ers Atchafalaya River Calcasieu River Lower Mississippi River, Natchez, Miss., to gulf List of major and minor river basins established by the Division of Water Supply and Pollution Control, Public Health Service, for basic collection purposes-Continued Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Quigley, one further question with regard to the basin situation. You are approaching this on a basin-by-basin plan or avenue at the present time, not by virtue of any statutory requirement, but by virtue of appearing to you to be the most logical plan to proceed with? Mr. QUIGLEY. I think that is a correct statement, Mr. Chairman. Mr. ROGERS. Is there any intention, you think, on the part of someone somewhere that by the passage of this legislation it will create a statutory precedent that this problem must in the future be approached on the basin-by-basin plan? Mr. QUIGLEY. I don't think so, Mr. Chairman. I certainly don't read it that way. Mr. ROGERS. The HEW doesn't feel that any approach to the water problem should be confined to any one particular plan? Mr. QUIGLEY. No. I think there are some areas where the basin approach is the logical one. But then you can easily rationalize your definition of what is in the basin. As I have indicated, we are saying in our judgment there are 17 major river basins, but we quickly break that down into several hundred. I think in most instances the basin approach will make sense. But I don't think there is anything in the bills before this committee which says this is the only way that these problems can be approached. Mr. ROGERS. When you speak of basins, you are speaking actually of surface water, because actually your underground water is supplemental to the surface water or vice versa, but we do not know yet whether or not the underground basin is the same as the surface basin; do we? Mr. QUIGLEY. No; we do not. I am assuming for purposes of this discussion we are talking about surface river basins as we generally think of them. Mr. ROGERS. The main thing I wanted to get in the record was whether or not there was any plan, patent or latent plan, to lay out a statutory program of approaching this on a basin-by-basin plan from now on, basing it on the surface basin, which is what we are talking about. Mr. QUIGLEY. I think it is our clear intent, Mr. Chairman, in making our comprehensive programs to proceed on a river basin approach. Mr. ROGERS. As you have in the past? Mr. QUIGLEY. As we have in the past. I think this is just the logic of the situation if we are going to go in to get the information that we need. It makes sense to do it on a river basin survey. Mr. ROGERS. Your primary motivation in support of this legislation is to bring about a coordination of effort that you feel in the past has been in a state of overlapping. Mr. QUIGLEY. Overlapping and sometimes nonexisting. Sometimes existing but out of kilter as far as time is concerned. We had reference earlier today to the Delaware River Basin. When that compact came into existence the Corps of Engineers was fairly far down the pike on its survey of that particular river basin. As a result what contribution we could make to that survey got over to a belated start. I would hope if we got the coordinated effort that these bills visualize, that if it was the decision of the Corps of Engineers to go into a river, that this decision would not be made only in the Army and in the |