the American taxpayer that he will realize the maximum benefits from these works. Recreational fishing has turned out to be one of the leading benefits that result. Static budgeting in this important area of reservoir research is preventing needed progress to be made in carrying out one of the most important related directives enunciated by the outdoor recreation resources review commission. We, therefore, urgently request that for fiscal year 1971 the Congress appropriate at least $1,080,000 to carry out this important national reservoir research program, the results from which are applicable in many situations throughout the rest of the Nation. Mr. Chairman, I would like to alert this committee to a most important future (fiscal year 1972) construction need to greatly increase the efficiency of operation of the south central reservoir investigations. It is recommended that a research center be built on Beaver Reservoir, Ark., by the national reservoir research program and operated in cooperation with the University of Arkansas, the Arkansas Water Resources Research Center, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, FWPCA laboratories at Duluth, Minn., and Ada, Okla., and other interested agencies. It should be an all-purpose facility, including wet and dry laboratories, offices, conference hall, indoor and outdoor fish-holding tanks and raceways, floating docks, and maintenance shop. Research vessels and field equipment would be designed for portability to be operated on other reservoirs within a 500-mile radius. Space would be provided for visiting scientists and graduate students. We presently estimate cost of site and construction to approximate $1 million. 3. The Anadromous Fish Act-Public Law 89-304 was enacted in response to an urgent need for a national program designed to benefit the anadromous and Great Lakes fishery resources. The act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with the States, on an equal cost-sharing basis, either jointly or separately, and with other non-Federal interests, for the conservation, development and enhancement of the anadromous fishes and those stocks of fish of the Great Lakes that ascend the streams to spawn-including the Atlantic salmon, five species of Pacific salmon, shad, striped bass, Dolly Varden, Arctic char, cutthroat and steelhead trout, sheefish or inconnu, and others. Work on the Columbia River Basin is excluded under the act since this area has been provided for by a previous Federal statute the Mitchell Act of 1939. This act is presently scheduled to terminate on June 30, 1970; it provides for a culminative appropriation ceiling of $25 million, and it limits the allocation to not more than $1 million to any State during any 1 fiscal year. Man the despoiler, through ignorance and in some cases wholesale destruction, has polluted the waters, built impassable barriers, and changed the habitat making it unsuitable for spawning or rearing anadromous fish. This has sharply reduced their abundance, and in other cases destroyed them entirely. The sereral States, vested with management authority, have attempted to discharge their obligation for the conservation of the anadromous fish resources within their respective boundaries, but they need help. The program objectives are to help save and develop important fishery resources of sport and commercial value (in connection with which the United States has international commitments), or that are subject to depletion from water-resource developments, pollution, land-filling or other causes. Work projects designed to meet the objectives fall under the following general heading: (a) Factfinding-research on the stocks of fish and their habitats: (b) Habitat improvement, including the restoration and enhancement of spawning and rearing areas, stream clearance to provide access to the upper reaches of the watersheds, setting aside water for the use of anadromous fish; (c) Determining the effects of pollution both on the habitat and the stocks of fish; (d) Long range comprehensive program planning for Great Lakes and anadromous fish stocks and the producing lake and river systems; (e) Fish facility construction, designed to assist and extend the anadromous fish stocks, including fish passage facilities; hatchery and rearing stations; protection and guidance devices; artificial spawning channels; and, (f) Developing methods and means for manipulation of the relative abundance of fish stocks for the benefit of the anadromous fish. The program is administered jointly by the BSFW and BCF. Twenty-seven States have cooperative agreements under this program with the Secretary, through one or both Bureaus. Interbureau cooperation is achieved through a four-man coordinating committee. Mr. Chairman, as previously noted, June 30, 1970, is the termination date of the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act. Since a large amount of necessary work remains to be accomplished, extension of the act has been requested. A proposal for extending the act for 5 years and increasing the authorization an additional $25 million is included in the Interior Department's legislative program presented to the 91st Congress. H.R. 1049 and S. 2396, bills to amend the act, have been introduced in the 2d session of the 91st Congress. These bills do not extend the termination date in the act, though it would raise the authorization ceiling from $25 to $32 million. Because of the immediacy of action required to continue this vital program, we have testified in favor of $5 million to extend the act to June 30, 1971. Benefits have already been realized under the program; however, much remains to be done. Great rewards lie ahead. The rehabilitation, extension, and enhancement of the anadromous fish resources will take time and funds if we are to meet the challenge. The Sport Fishing Institute sincerely urges your consideration to this necessary extension and funding. 4. U.S. Forest Service Appropriation.-The Sport Fishing Institute strongly supports forest service plans to expand its facilities for watershed research. For this purpose, a laboratory is vitally needed at the U.S. Forest Service's Coweeta Hydrologic Station, Dillard, Ga., which is the site of the most intensive continuous watershed study program-small though it is-ever to be inaugurated in these United States. With better than 30 years of detailed hydrologic data now recorded by this station, using various forms of manipulation on its test plots of 45 small watersheds, Coweeta now has the potential to provide needed answer to many puzzling technical questions concerning the precipitation-runoff relationship in certain types of forested areas. Vegetation, soils, and water involve complex relations between transpiration, interception, and evaporation. Improved understanding of these matters are of the utmost significance to hopedfor improvements in watershed management procedures. For the record, we thank this committee for providing planning money in the 1968 budget for the new laboratory at Coweeta Station, which was completed during fiscal year 1969. A modest $750,000 is now needed to build the Coweeta Laboratory. We understand that no money has been requested for this work as a fiscal year 1971 budget item, which we regard as most unwise and retrogressive. For our part, Mr. Chairman, we respectfully request that your committee add the necessary funding at this time in order to expedite this very important, if small, research program. This can be a key fact-finder in the Environmental Decade-we cannot afford to quibble over such a small but significant request that can pay back manyfold in vitally-needed knowledge. Thank you for this opportunity to present the Sport Fishing Institute's views to you and your Committee on these matters that are of such grave concern to nearly one-third of America's citizenry-the sport fishermen. Mrs. HANSEN. Our hearings began on February 17, 1970 and today completes hearings of the Interior Subcommittee on Appropriations. I wish to thank the membership of this committee for their magnificent support, attendance, and interest during the entire duration of the hearings. I would like to add a special salute to my ranking and distinguished member from South Dakota, Congressman Ben Reifel, who has been present at all hearings, and has made such a great contribution. Like the members of the subcommittee, I share their misgivings about Mr. Reifel's retirement. We only wish he would stay. I may say without his cooperation and the cooperation of the committee members, it would have been impossible to have reviewed the agencies which came before us with the same degree of penetration and analysis. At 6:28 P.M., April 16, 1970, I declare the record of these hearings closed on testimony relating to the 1971 budget requirements in the Interior and Related Agencies bill. Jackson, J. O_ Jackson, Dr. W. D____ Johnson, Hon. A. W. Johnson, Hon. H. T Kastenmeier, Hon. R. W_ Kotrla, R. A_-_. Kramer, Paul_ Krekeler, Carl. Latimer, Truett_ Mack, Frank. Madden, Hon. R. J Martin, Hon. Dave_- McClannahan, W. W., Jr.. McCracken, J. W. Mead, B. M............. Melcher, Hon. 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