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Show COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY PROFILE OF THE TENNESSEE RIVER FIGURE 6. States and local agencies in developing a water plan for the basin, it has been successful in co- operating with those agencies. While the au- thority approach is not the only way of achieving such unified management of resources, the ex- periment has provided a stimulus to efforts to take advantage of its lessons. The Federal agencies responsible for the sev- eral aspects of water resources development have themselves taken steps to secure greater unity in planning and, to a degree, more cooperation with the States. Their approach has been through the voluntary organization of the Federal Inter- Agency River Basin Committee, which has set up regional interagency committees in the Missouri, Columbia, and Colorado Basins. These committees have brought about a meas- ure of cooperation in the river basin planning work of the Department of the Interior, Depart- ment of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Army Engineers, and the Federal Power Com- mission, with the Federal Security Agency re- cently added. They have stimulated a correla- tion of agency work within some of the Depart- ments as, for example, the Department of the Interior. Provision has also been made for par- ticipation of the Basin States in Missouri and Columbia interagency committees, but the fact remains that plans for major features of Mis- souri Basin development, for instance, were crystallized before State agencies had an oppor- tunity to make this participation effective. Under provisions of the 1950 River and Har- bor Act,- a 2-year survey of the Arkansas, White, and Red River Basins in the Southwest has beerm initiated on an interagency basis but with one of the agencies in a predominant position. iV survey of the resources of New England and New York has also been started under this act along a similar line. 45 |
