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Show 473 the economy of the Missouri River Basin. * * * This fact has been recognized in designing a plan for water-resource development for the basin. The plan here tendered incorporates the Corps of Engineers' proposed plans for flood control and aids to navigation in the river below Sioux City, with some modifications of Army plans for developments on the upper river * * *. A general statement with respect to the Missouri River Basin and its economic problems, and a compre- hensive plan for developing and utilizing its water resources is contained in this report. Because of differences between the two reports, a committee composed of two representatives each from the Army Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation was appointed to review and reconcile the engineering features of the two plans.369 It pre- pared a joint engineering report pointing out that by making appropriate modifications it was possible to eliminate the dif- ferences, and it enunciated the following basic principles:370 (a) The Corps of Engineers should have the responsi- bility for determining main stem reservoir capacities and capacities of tributary reservoirs for flood control and navigation. (6) The Bureau of Reclamation should have the re- sponsibility for determining the reservoir capacities on the main stem and tributaries of the Missouri River for irrigation, the probable extent of future irrigation, and the amount of stream depletion due to irrigation devel- opment. (c) Both agencies recognize the importance of the full- est development of the potential hydroelectric power in the basin consistent with the other beneficial uses of water. As thus modified, the plans of the two agencies were approved and the initial stages authorized in the Flood Control Act of 369 Sen. Doc. No. 247, 78th Cong., 2d sess., p. 1 (1944). |