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Show 472 "Pick-Sloan" plan, together with attempts to create a Missouri Valley Authority.384 Pursuant to a 1943 resolution of the House Committee on Flood Control, the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors reviewed certain "308 Reports" to determine if any modifica- tion should be made with respect to Missouri River main-stem flood control.365 The report of this review was submitted in 1944.366 After its preparation but prior to its submission, it was circulated for comment to the Bureau of Reclamation, the Federal Power Commission, the Department of Agriculture, and the Bureau of the Budget.367 About the same time, the Bureau of Reclamation submitted its general plan for development of the Missouri River Basin, saying:368 This report deals with a plan for the conservation and control of the water resources of the entire Missouri River Basin, which includes the northern Great Plains, and the use of such resources in watershed develop- ment. Every water resource and all feasible beneficial uses of water, such as aids to navigation, flood control, the irrigation of land, the producing of power, the resto- ration of surface and ground-water levels and of domes- tic and municipal water supplies, the abatement of stream pollution, silt control, fish and wildlife preserva- tion, and recreation, were taken into account in an effort to formulate a basin-wide plan most likely to yield the greatest good to the greatest number of people. * * * Agriculture is and always will be the primary basis of 884 A Missouri River Commission was created in 1884 to carry out "plans for the improvement of the navigation of said river, * * * "to make surveys and devise plans "to maintain a channel and depth of water * * * sufficient for * * * commerce." Act of July 5, 1884, § 1, 23 Stat. 133, 144-145. For a history of the relatively short life of this Commission, see Index to the Reports of the Chief of Engineers, U. S. Armt, 1866-1912, vol. 1, p. 1040. 865 H. Doc. No. 475, 78th Cong., 2d sess., p. 14 (1944) ; H. Doc. No. 238, 73d Cong., 2d sess. (1934) ; H. Doc. No. 821, 76th Cong., 3d sess. (1940). 866 H. Doc. No. 475, 78th Cong., 2d sess. (1944). •"/d. pp. 1, VII. 868 Sen. Doc. No. 191, 78th Cong., 2d sess., p. 17 (1944). |