Project V. NEW CONSTRUCTION STARTS TO START IN FY 1972 (Cont'd) Corpus Christi Ship Channel, Texas San Gabriel River, Texas 250,000 200,000 78,400,000 200,000 800,000 1,000,000 Mr. DAVIS. Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask this for the record. What are the formalities with respect to the approval or the continuance of your projects to which you must conform relating to the jurisdiction of the Environmental Protection Agency? Will you supply that for the record? Also, the Environmental Quality Council. Mr. EVINS. Will you elaborate for the record, General? (The information follows.) During the preconstruction planning period, the proposed plan of development, together with the assessment of the environmental impact of such development, are fully coordinated with governmental agencies of all levels having a relationship to the jurisdictional responsibilities of the Environmental Protection Agency. Consideration and evaluation of the comments and recommendations received from these agencies provide the basis for making decisions concerning proceeding with construction of a given project or following some other course of action, such as reevaluation and reformulation of a project. Environmental impact statements are filed with the Council on Environmental Quality after this evaluation procedure has been completed and the decision has been made in the public interest to proceed with development of any project. This provides the forum for allowing public review of the governmental evaluation and decisionmaking process as related to fulfillment of the Nation's water resources development needs. Mr. EVINS. Thank you, gentlemen. We will stand adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow at which time we will take up the North Pacific Division. THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1971.. NORTH PACIFIC DIVISION WITNESSES BRIG. GEN. ROY S. KELLEY, DIVISION ENGINEER Mr. EVINS. The committee will come to order. We will take up this morning the appropriation justifications for the North Pacific Division. General Kelley, the committee is pleased to hear you. Do you have a statement for the committee? GENERAL STATEMENT General KELLEY. Mr. Chairman, members of the committee. If I may, I'd like to present a summary of a longer opening statement which I will file for the record. I welcome this opportunity to report to you on the work being carried out in the North Pacific Division and to present our budget request for fiscal year 1972. For orientation, the North Pacific Division comprises all or parts of seven Pacific Northwest States plus Alaska, as shown here, with Alaska to scale, for a total of 860,000 square miles. This is almost one-quarter of the land area of the United States, rich. in water resources, and with a variety of problems. This year I would like to tell you about our progress in the North Pacific Division-what we have accomplished in the past year and what we hope to do next year-as well as some of the problems we have encountered and what we hope to do about them. I will discuss only the highlights, generally under the headings shown here: Flood Control Erosion Control Multiple Purpose Projects Recreation, Fish and Wildlife General Investigations COLUMBIA BASIN FLOOD CONTROL STORAGE As you know, the flood potential in the Northwest, and in the Columbia Basin, is awesome. The Columbia River runoff is third among rivers of the United States and fourth in North America. The total volume of snowmelt runoff in a major flood year exceeds 150 million acre-feet. The total volume of reservoir storage needed to effect a reasonable degree of control approaches 35 million acre-feet. This is equivalent to more than a foot of water over Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Today we can count on about 17 million, and we can anticipate having about 32 million acre-feet of usable flood control storage in 1973. This includes the major contribution from the storage provided by Canadian projects (including the use of "on-call" storage), and two major projects in the United States: Dworshak (2 million acre-feet) and Libby (5 million acre-feet). When |