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Show 476 New England-New York.-Here, the current situation is similar to that in the Arkansas-White and Red River Basins. Proposals had been advanced for a New England-New York Resources Survey Commission.382 In recommending such a Commission, the President said:883 New York and the New England States have real and serious problems of soil and forest conservation and management, and of controlling and using water to prevent floods, to provide domestic and industrial water supplies, and to furnish low-cost hydroelectric power. * * * We have gradually come to understand that, if best results are to be achieved, these problems should be con- sidered together, and met by comprehensive planning and action which recognizes the close inter-relationship of land and water and their manifold uses. But the Flood Control Act of 1950 authorized the Army Engi- neers to conduct an examination of the "Merrimack and Con- necticut Rivers and their tributaries, and such other streams in the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu- setts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, where power develop- ment appears feasible and practicable, to determine the hydro- electric potentialities, in combination with other water and resource development."384 Referring to requests that the survey be coordinated with the Federal Power Commission, the Senate Committee on Public Works said: ^ The committee considers that under existing laws and administrative procedures, the Federal Power Commis- sion has full authority to make surveys of this type and to coordinate such surveys with those of the Corps of Engineers and other agencies. It is understood that this 882 S. 2847 (H. R. 7062) superseding S. 1899; later superseded by S. 3707 (H. R. 8747) all 81st Cong. 883 President's letter to President of the Senate, dated February 9, 1950, 96 Cong. Rec. 1697-1698 (1950). 884 Act of May 17,1950, § 205, 64 Stat. 163, -. 885 Sen. Rep. No. 1143, 81st Cong., 1st sess., p. 71 (1949). |