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Show It would also provide useful guidance as to whether all the suggested programs together are sufficient to achieve important national goals within a reasonable period. For instance, will they support adequate provision for communities, housing, employment, and government services required for the greatly enlarged populations now characteristic of the Western States? Or will they furnish the basis for adequate diets for the population we expect in this country by 1975? If gaps exist, the suggested procedure would spotlight them. If duplications exist, and meth- ods could be found to bridge them, they too would be spotlighted, and there would be an opportu- nity to remove them. The procedure would also provide a means of eliminating interagency competition, such as that commented on by the Commission on the Or- ganization of the Executive Branch of the Gov- ernment (the Hoover Commission). Referring to the activities of the Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, that Commission said: There have been repeated instances where each competes with the other to begin construction on the same project. The result has been hasty plan- ning, lack of sufficient basic data, duplicating cost of surveying and estimating, failure to consider the entire needs of the area, and the creating of strong and opposing local pressures, each seeking special benefits. The end result has been needless delay, confusion, and gross waste of the taxpayers' money. This procedure for renewal resources budget formulation is an essential part of the coordina- tion of our resources procedure to assure unified multiple-purpose basin programs. It will make possible the analysis of the hazards of continued neglect, comparison of various types of programs for various areas, and a reasoned conclusion as to the need for and desirability of specific public investment programs. RECOMMENDATIONS The Commission therefore recommends legis- lation for the formation and establishment of a Federal renewable resources investment pro- gram as an extension of the procedure established under Executive Order 9384. A corresponding Federal renewable resources budget procedure, as a modification of the present budget proce- dure, should be established to govern the prepara- tion of appropriation requests in this field. The Commission further recommends that the following principles be set up to govern the prep- aration of such programs and annual budgets, with their appropriate justifications: 1. The program should present long-range es- timates of the needs of the Nation for investment in renewable resources conservation and devel- opment to meet carefully defined national ob- jectives. These long-range estimates would then be reduced to a 6-year program revised annually in connection with the preparation of each annual renewable resources budget. The long-range, as well as the 6-year, programs should be fully ex- plained in their relationship to the Nation's physi- cal resources and economic situation, both pro- jected ahead at least a generation. 2. The programs and annual budgets should be comprehensive, including all needed Federal expenditures in the field of renewable resources. They should list the capital expenditures needed for compilation of necessary basic data, surveys and planning, construction of works, and contin- uing annual expenditures for operation, mainte- nance, and education. 3. The programs and annual budgets should be subdivided to show expenditures required to halt further depletion, to maintain the Nation's heritage of soil, grass, forest, and water resources intact; to increase the productivity of those re- sources through conservation storage of surplus waters, irrigation, hydro developments, naviga- tion improvements, and other beneficial uses; and to provide for such other purposes as recreation and the maintenance of fish and wildlife. 4. The preparation of the programs should in- clude a thorough review of the Nation's resources conservation and developmental requirements in terms of municipal and industrial water supply, cropland and pasture, forest products, transporta- tion, electric power, and recreation, and a detailed statement of the physical measures required to 911609-50------8 95 |