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Show 456 the present act. But more than this is needed. I recom- mend that the Congress reconsider the matter, and au- thorize the type of investigation and planning that would be accomplished under the provisions originally adopted by the Senate. (Bracketed material supplied.) Later, in separate letters to the Departments of Agricul- ture, the Army, Commerce, and the Interior, to Federal Power Commission, arid to Federal Security Agency, the President directed these agencies to organize an interagency committee, to formulate procedure, and to map out a joint plan of inves- tigation, indicating specifically the responsibilities of each and the prospective allocation of agency resources to the joint effort. He stated:283 It is essential that the Executive agencies organize their efforts to realize, as far as possible under existing law, the potentialities of the broad-scale, integrated national resources study for the Arkansas-White and Red River Basins authorized in H. R. 5472. In this connection it is important that the efforts of the various agencies be integrated from the very be- ginning of the investigation. * * * The final product of such a joint inter- agency investigation should be a single comprehensive report embracing the coordinated views of all agencies concerned. This interagency field committee was established by the Fed- eral Inter-Agency River Basin Committee on June 12, 1950, with the Department of the Army designated as the Chair- man Agency.28* Central Valley, California.-Federal participation in water-resource development in the Central Valley is largely the responsibility of the Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Engineers, both having prepared basin-wide plans for develop- 288 Letters of the President, dated May 19, 1950. 884 Minutes, FIARBO, June 12,1950, Exhibit A. |