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Show 444 interests.2*6 Or the statute may authorize programs to be car- ried out through state agencies.247 Provision has often been made for carrying out conserva- tion and development of resources through cooperative federal and state action. This is especially true in the case of forest, fish and wildlife, and land-utilization programs.248 246 For example: Beach Erosion Board to consist of seven members, three of them selected from among cooperating state agencies. Act of July 3,1930, § 2, 46 Stat. 918, 945, 33 U. S. O. 426. Water Pollution Control Advisory Board to include a representative of state government. Act of June 30, 1948, § 6(b), 62 Stat. 1155, 1158, as amended, 33 U. S. 0. 466e(b) (Supp. III). The Federal Inter-Agency River Basin Committee's Subcommittees for the Columbia and the Missouri Basins include representatives of the states involved. See Summary Report on Federal Inter-Agency River Basin Committee and Its Subcommittees, pp. 31-35 (1949). The Subcommittee for the Arkansas-White and Red Basins is to invite the State Governors to participate in its meetings. See Minutes, FIARBC, June 12, 1950, Exhibit A, p. 2. 247 For example: Federal-aid highway construction to be carried out through state agencies. Act of November 9,1921, § 12, 42 Stat. 212, 215, as amended, 23 U. S. C. 13. Secretaries of Agriculture and the Army may utilize the services of federal, state, and other public agencies for carrying out the purposes of the 1936 Flood Control Act as amended and supplemented. Act of June 28,1938, § 5, 52 Stat. 1215,1223, as amended, 33 U. S. C. 701b-2. 348 For example: Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with any state, or group of states, when requested to do so, in protection against fire in forested watersheds of navigable streams. Act of March 1, 1911, § 2, 36 Stat. 961,16 U. S. C. 563. Secretary of Agriculture may secure the cooperation of state authorities in the construction and maintenance of national-forest roads as parts of state highway systems. Act of March 4, 1913, 37 Stat. 828, 843, as amended, 16 U. S. C. 501. Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with states in the construction of rural post roads; state must consent to provisions of the federal act. Act of July 11,1916, § 1, 39 Stat. 355, as amended. Federal cooperation with states for forest fire suppression, for production and distribution of forest tree seeds and plants, and for assisting farm owners in establishing and improving "wood lots, shelter belts, windbreaks and other valuable forest growth." Act of June 7,1924, §§ 1,4, 5,43 Stat. 653, 654, as amended, 16 U. S. C. 564, et seq. (Supp. III). Federal cooperation with individuals and public and private agencies in investigations and experiments for reforestation, fire protection, disease control, and utilization of forest products. Act of May 22, 1928, §§ 1, 9, 45 |