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Show 425 In connection with the use of river-development programs as public-works projects, it may be noted that the flood-con- trol works provided for by the 1944 Flood Control Act were required federal construction agencies to prepare and submit six-year plans to the Budget Director who "shall report to the President from time to time consolidated plans and estimates." In the memorandum mentioned in the preceding footnote, the Bureau of the Budget says that Ex. O. No. 9384, issued after abolition of the NRPB, was based in part on the Employment Stabiliza- tion Act of 1931. The language of the Executive Order states its issuance by virtue of the authority vested in the "President of the United States, and particularly by the Budgeting and Accounting Act of 1921, as amended.") The purpose of the six-year plans was "to assist in the stabilization of industry through the proper timing" of construction. The Federal Em- ployment Stabilization Board, created by the 1931 Act, was later abolished; and its powers, duties, and functions were transferred to the Federal Employ- ment Stabilization Office, established within the Department of Commerce. Ex. O. No. 6166, § 1, June 10,1933; Ex. O. No. 6623, March 1, 1934. The last appropriation for this Office was made in 1934. See H. Doc. No. 142, 77th Cong., 1st sess., p. 51 (1941). In 1936, the President requested the National Resources Committee to assume responsibility for annual revision of the federal six-year program. H. Doc. No. 142, 77th Cong., 1st sess., p. 51 (1941). This Committee had assumed the powers and duties of the National Resources Board, which in turn had succeeded to the powers, duties, and functions of the National Planning Board, established by the PWA Administrator to advise and assist him in the preparation of the comprehensive plan of public works author- ized by the National Recovery Act. Act of June 16, 1933, §§ 201, 202, 48 Stat. 195, 200-201. Thus, the foregoing duty of the Federal Employment Stabilization Office and that of the National Resources Committee were substantially the same, that is, responsibility for preparation of compre- hensive, public-works programs. The powers, duties, and functions of both of these agencies were later transferred to the National Resources Planning Board, created in the Executive Office of the President. Reorganization Plan No. I of 1939, §§ 4, 6, effective July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2727, 2728, 53 Stat. 1423, 1424, 5 U. S. C. 133t note following. This new Board was directed to develop an orderly program of public works and to list such works "in the order of their relative importance with respect to (1) the greatest good to the greatest number of people, (2) the emergency necessities of the Nation, and (3) the social, economic and cultural advancement of the people of the United States." Ex. O. No. 8248, September 8, 1939, 4 F. R. 3864, 3865. All construction agencies were directed to submit six-year, advance plans and programs of their public-works construction to the NRPB and to the Bureau of the Budget. Ex. O. No. 8455, June 26, 1940, 5 F. R. 2420. For details of the procedure used in developing the six-year programs, see H. Doc. No. 142, 77th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 51-54 (1941). In 1943, Congress abolished the NRPB and expressly provided that its functions not be transferred to any other agency. Act of June 26,1943, § 101, |