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Show PART VIII RECOMMENDATIONS Ik. Additional analyses on how water resource development programs change employment participation rates, types of employment, income dis- tribution patterns, educational levels, or other socio-economic factors for low income, minority, and rural population sectors should be initiated. 15. Legal and institutional arrangements should be modified to pro- mote greater flexibility for future uses of water and land. Specific Recommendations 1. Encourage local governmental agencies to take advantage of the opportunity for early implementation of nonstructural flood plain man- agement measures because of the present sparse population and lack of extensive developments in the flood plains. This would permit sound land use planning in guiding development and use of the flood plains to mini- mize future flood losses and eliminate the need for channelization or other structural flood control measures. Studies should be made to deter- mine the degree of participation of Federal, State, and local government levels in the implementation and enforcement of land use constraints. 2. Provide for storage of floodwaters in multiple-purpose reser- voirs concurrent with needed watershed treatment measures. Install lev- ees and channel improvement only at critical locations where other alter- natives fail to provide the needed protection. 3. Consider establishing State authority, similar to that in Colo- rado, to allow State governments to furnish the local share of project cost when the financial ability of local interests is exceeded in order that needed flood protection projects can be installed. h. Implement watershed management protection programs-including land treatment on 2k million acres and installation of 7^,000 water con- trol structures in conjunction with management. Immediate attention should be given to the 3«9 million acres in critical erosion condition. 5. Develop supplemental irrigation water for established irrigated areas to stabilize existing developments. 6. Improve irrigation water management and conveyance facilities and apply land treatment measures to increase irrigation efficiencies. 7. Complete detailed land use and land classification studies to identify lands considered submarginal for efficient irrigation. 8. Identify and eliminate from future irrigation development lands that would increase the salt load significantly in the stream system. 109 |