Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

Front Cover

From inside the book

Contents


Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 63 - Water Resources Planning Act". STATEMENT OF POLICY SEC. 2. In order to meet the rapidly expanding demands for water throughout the Nation, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to encourage the conservation, development, and utilization of water and related land resources of the United States on a comprehensive and coordinated basis by the Federal Government, States, localities, and private enterprise with the cooperation of all affected Federal agencies, States, local governments,...
Page 56 - Act — (1) serve as the principal agency for the coordination of Federal, State, interstate, local and nongovernmental plans for the development of water and related land resources in its area, river basin, or group of river basins...
Page 139 - BILL to provide for the optimum development of the Nation's natural resources through the coordinated planning of water and related land resources, through the establishment of a "Water Resources Council and river basin commissions, and by providing financial assistance to the States in order to increase State participation in such planning.
Page 47 - Act and, except as necessary to meet minimum requirements for the administration of the area for the purpose of this Act (including measures required in emergencies involving the health and safety of persons within the area...
Page 75 - States to assist them in developing and participating in the development of comprehensive water and related land resources plans.
Page 62 - To enterprising young men. The subscriber wishes to engage one hundred young men to ascend the Missouri river to its source, there to be employed for one, two, or three years.
Page 135 - Congress to recognize, preserve, and protect the primary responsibilities and rights of the States in preventing and controlling water pollution...
Page 297 - The whole of my party to a man except myself were fully pe[r]suaided that this river was the Missouri, but being fully of opinion that it was neither the main stream, nor that which it would be advisable for us to take, I determined to give it a name and in honour of Miss Maria W d.
Page 172 - Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Department of Housing and Urban Development Department of the Interior Department of Justice Department of...
Page 58 - States and the national interest therein ; and (b) maintain a continuing study of the relation of regional or river basin plans and programs to the requirements of larger regions of the Nation, and of the adequacy of administrative and statutory means for the coordination of the water and related land resources policies and programs of the several Federal agencies...

Bibliographic information