REDESIGNATE THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AS THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON OF THE COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES SENATE NINETIETH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 886 A BILL TO REDESIGNATE THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OCTOBER 17, 19 AND 20, 1967 Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Operations LAW LIBRARY APR 1 1968 UNIVERYTY, RE CAUFORNIA U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1968 88-889 SENATE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas, Chairman HENRY M. JACKSON, Washington KARL E. MUNDT, South Dakota SAM J. IRVIN, JR., North Carolina CARL T. CURTIS, Nebraska ERNEST GRUENING, Alaska JACOB K. JAVITS, New York EDMUND S. MUSKIE, Maine CLIFFORD P. HANSEN, Wyoming ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, Connecticut HOWARD H. BAKER, JR., Tennessee FRED R. HARRIS, Oklahoma ROBERT F. KENNEDY, New York LEE METCALF, Montana JOSEPH M. MONTOYA, New Mexico JAMES R. CALLOWAY, Chief Counsel and Staff Director ARTHUR A, SHARP, Staj Editor SUBCOMMITTEE ON EXECUTIVE REORGANIZATION ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, Connecticut, Chairman JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas JACOB K. JAVITS, New York ERNEST GRUENING, Alaska CLIFFORD P. HANSEN, Wyoming ROBERT F. KENNEDY, New York HOWARD H. BAKER, JR., Tennessee PAUL DANACEAU, Staj Director ESTHER NEWBERG, Chief Clerk PAMELA M, PANCZAK, Staj Editor * minge 3 CONTENTS Page WITNESSES Affairs) to Deputy Assistant Secretary (Education). Hon. Orville L. Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture. Phillip S. Hughes, Deputy Director, Bureau of the Budget.. Gen. Harold K. Johnson, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, accompanied by Lt. Gen. William Cassidy, Chief of Engineers, and Brig. Gen. Harry G. Woodbury, Director of Civil Works, Office of the Chief of Engineers, Hon. Edward M. Kennedy, a U.S. Senator from the State of Massachu- setts... Hon. Frank E. Moss, a U.S. Senator from the State of Utah. Hon. Stanley R. Resor, Secretary of the Army; accompanied by Alfred B. Fitt, special assistant to the Secretary of the Army for Civil Works.--. 32 1. A bill to redesignate the Department of the Interior as the Depart- ment of Natural Resources and to transfer certain agencies to and from such Department, S. 886, 90th Congress, first session, intro- 2. Memorandum concerning S. 886, prepared by Wallace D. Bowman, specialist in conservation and natural resources, Natural Resources Division of the Legislative Reference Service, the Library of Con- 3. Analysis of natural resource spending, the budget of the U.S. Govern- 4. A bill to preserve the Nation's estuarine areas and their natural resources, S. 2365, 90th Cong., first session, introduced by Senator 5. Statement of Hon. Gale McGee, a U.S. Senator from the State of Wyoming, submitted for the record. 6. Article from the New York Times, “Army Admits Role in Lake Pollution," October 11, 1967.. 7. Joint statement by the Departments of the Interior and the Army regarding the issue of dredging on the Great Lakes, submitted for the record by Secretary Resor.-- 8. Joint statement of the Departments of the Interior and the Army regarding the water situation at Everglades National Park, sub- mitted for the record by Lieutenant General Cassidy. 9. “Quality Education for American Indians, a Report on Organizational Location,” prepared for the Subcommittee on Education of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, May 1967, sub- mitted for the record by Under Secretary Cohen. 10. Supplemental statement of Lt. Gen. William Cassidy, Chief of Engi- 11. Letter from Hon. Robert C. McConnell, Assistant Secretary of the past Interior to Senator Ribicoff, concerning additional information 113 12. Letter from Phillip S. Hughes, Deputy Director, Bureau of the Budget, to Senator Ribicoff, concerning the views of the Bureau of the Budget 129 13. Resolution of the Warrior-Tombigbee Development Association in Alabama, concerning the role of the Army Corps of Engineers in 140 14. Letter from Hon. Ramsey Clark, Attorney General, to Senator Ribicoff, expressing the views of the Justice Department on S. 886, 141 15. Letter from Hon. John Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to Senator Ribicoff, expressing the views of that Depart- 142 16. Letter from C. W. McMillan, executive vice president, American National Cattlemen's Association, to Senator Ribicoff, containing 143 17. Statement of Hon. Edmund S. Muskie, a U.S. Senator from the State of Maine, submitted for the record, November 1, 1967 144 18. Letter from Richard H. Stroud, executive vice president, Sport Fishing Institute, to Senator Ribicoff, commenting on S. 886, October 24, 145 19. Letter from Hon. Orville Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture, to Senator Ribicoff including a joint statement concerning arrangements for 146 20. Letter from Col. George E. Pickett, director, Department of Water and Air Resources, State of North Carolina, to Senator Ervin, Jordan, October 25, 1967... Water Management District, to Senator Ribicoff, including a state- west Florida Water Management District, October 26, 1967.--- 151 22. Letter from Riley S. Miles, executive director and general manager, Water Users Association of Florida, Inc., to Senator Ribicoff, 153 23. Letter from Braxton B. Carr, president, the American Waterways Operators, Inc., to Senator Ribicoff, commenting on S. 886, Novem- 154 24. Letter from Floyd H. Blaske, national president, the Propeller Club of the United States, to Senator Ribicoff, commenting on S. 886, 155 25. Letter from Swep T. Davis, executive director-secretary, Pat Harri son Waterway District, to Senator Ribicoff, including a resolution 155 26. Article from the Natural Resources Journal, “The Case for a Depart ment of Natural Resources," by Mister Z, the University of New 157 149 H |
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