(3) determine with respect to ground water resources the continuity and extent of important water-bearing formations; (4) determine the yield from stream systems under natural flow conditions and under varying degrees of storage and the amounts and quality of waters available from such systems. during drought, flood, and intermediate conditions; (5) determine whether sea water has moved inland into heavily pumped coastal aquifers; (6) give special consideration to conditions which may invite the invasion of sea water into fresh-water supplies; (7) compile and make available to appropriate State and local officials any results of this study and investigation that would be appropriate for their use in long-range planning, development, and management of water supplies; (8) cooperate with State and local agencies for the purpose of using any information and data available to carry out the purposes of this study; and (9) consider such other matters as the Secretary may deem appropriate to the study and investigation herein authorized. Pub.L. 89-618, § 1, Oct. 4, 1966, 80 Stat. 870. § 1962d-8. Same; reports to President and Congress During the course of the study and investigation authorized by sections 1962d-7 to 1962d-11 of this title, the Secretary may submit to the President for transmission to the Congress such interim reports as the Secretary may consider desirable. The Secretary shall submit a final report to the President for transmission to the Congress not more than six years after October 4, 1966. Pub.L. 89-618, § 2, Oct. 4, 1966, 80 Stat. 870. § 1962d-9. Same; information from Federal agencies The Secretary is authorized to secure directly from any executive department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, independent establishment, or instrumentality of the Federal Government, information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics for the purpose of sections 1962d-7 to 1962d-11 of this title and each department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, independent establishment, or instrumentality is authorized and directed to furnish such information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics, to the Secretary upon his or his designee's request. Pub.L. 89-618, § 3, Oct. 4, 1966, 80 Stat. 870. § 1962d-10. Same; cooperation with other agencies In carrying out the study and investigation authorized by sections 1962d-7 to 1962d-11 of this title, the Secretary is authorized to cooperate with other Federal, State, and local agencies now engaged in comprehensive planning for water resource use and development in the Delmarva Peninsula area by making available to those agencies his findings and to cooperate with those agencies in the Northeastern United States Water Supply Study as authorized by section 1962d-4 of this title. Pub.L. 89-618, § 4, Oct. 4, 1966, 80 Stat. 871. § 1962d-11. Same; authorization of appropriations There is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $500,000 to carry out the provisions of sections 1962d-7 to 1962d11 of this title: Provided, That nothing in such sections shall prevent the expenditure of other funds appropriated to the Geological Survey for studies and activities performed under its general authority. Pub.L. 89-618, § 5, Oct. 4, 1966, 80 Stat. 871. § 1962d-12. Alaskan water resources; investigations of projects for conservation, development, and utilization; reports For the purpose of encouraging and promoting the development of Alaska, the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary") is authorized to make investigations of projects for the conservation, development, and utilization of the water resources of Alaska and to report thereon, with appropriate recommendations, from time to time, to the President and to the Congress. Aug. 9, 1955, c. 682, § 1, 69 Stat. 618. § 1962d-13. Same; solicitation of views and recommendations; transmittal of report to Congress Prior to the transmission of any such report to the Congress, the Secretary shall transmit copies thereof for information and comment to the Governor of Alaska, or to such representative as may be named by him, and to the heads of interested Federal departments and agencies. The written views and recommendations of the aforementioned officials may be submitted to the Secretary within ninety days from the day of receipt of said proposed report. The Secretary shall immediately thereafter transmit to the Congress, with such comments and recommendations as he deems appropriate, his report, together with copies of the views and recommendations received from the aforementioned officials. The letter of transmittal and its attachments shall be printed as a House or Senate document. Aug. 9, 1955, c. 682, § 2, 69 Stat. 618. §1962d-14. Same; appropriations There are hereby authorized to be appropriated not more than $250,000 in any one fiscal year. Aug. 9, 1955, c. 682, § 3, 69 Stat. 618. 1.19d Water Resources Planning Act Continuing Appropriation Authorization, July 1, 1973, P.L. 93-55, 87 Stat. 140. An Act To amend the Water Resources Planning Act to provide for continuing authorization for appropriations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 401 of the Water Resources Planning Act (Public Law 8980; 79 Stat. 244; 42 U.S.C. 1962d) is amended to delete, immediately after the phrase "(c) not to exceed $3,500,000," the words "in fiscal year 1973 and such annual amounts as may be authorized by subsequent Acts" and to insert "annually for fiscal years 1974 and 1975". Approved July 1, 1973. [p. 1] 1.19d (1) SENATE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS S. REP. No. 93–174, 93rd Cong., 1st Sess. (1973) AMENDING THE WATER RESOURCES PLANNING ACT MAY 23, 1973.-Ordered to be printed Mr. JACKSON, from the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 1501] The Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, to which was referred the bill (S. 1501) to amend the Water Resources Planning Act to provide for continuing authorization for appropriations, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with amendments and recommends that the bill as amended do pass. The amendments are as follows: On page 1, lines 6 and 7, strike the words "and such annual amounts as may be authorized by subsequent Acts" and on line 8, strike the words "word 'annually'" and insert in lieu thereof insert the words "words in fiscal year 1974". 2. Amend the title of the bill to read as follows: "To amend the Water Resources Planning Act to authorize appropriations for Fiscal Year 1974." PURPOSE OF THE MEASURE The purpose of S. 1501, which was recommended by the Administration, is to remove the requirement for annual authorizations for a portion of the appropriations requested by the Water Resources Council to carry out certain functions assigned to it under the provisions of the Water Resources Planning Act of 1965 (79 Stat. 244, as amended). BACKGROUND The Water Resources Planning Act of 1965 has the following general provisions: Title I established the Water Resources Council. The Council is composed of the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, the Army, HEW, Transportation, and the Chairman of the Federal Power Commission. It is supported by an executive director and staff which constitute a separate agency. The Council has important administrative duties to maintain an assessment of the Nation's water resources to review and establish standards and procedures for Federal water resources development, and to review comprehensive river basin plans. Title II authorizes the establishment of joint Federal-State river basin commissions to perform comprehensive water resource development activities in the regions. Each such commission shall have a chairman appointed by the President as Federal representative, and a representative from each State and each Federal agency represented and from each interstate agency created by compact. (River basin commissions have been established in seven basins thus far. In the other basins ad hoc committees are performing the function.) Title III provides for a program of grants to the States amounting to $5 million annually to finance not more than 50 percent of each State's comprehensive water resource planning program. Title IV of the act includes miscellaneous provision including the authorization of appropriations. The existing limitations are $1,500,000 annually to carry out the Council's general administrative duties under titles I and II; and $6,000,000 annually to carry out title II, further limited to not more than $750,000 for any single river basin commission. $3,500,000 in Fiscal Year 1973 and such annual amounts as may be authorized by subsequent acts for comprehensive river basin planning and national assessments of water resources. The last amount was added to the authorization by the Act of August 20, 1972 (85 Stat. 77.) That amendment increased the authorization of appropriations for the operation of the Water Resources Council to provide funds for two functions which the Water Resources Planning Act of 1965 directs the Council to perform but which were previously funded through the appropriations of the member agencies of the Council. The 1972 amendment authorized additional appropriations to the Council totaling $3,500,000 in Fiscal Year 1973. Of this amount, not more than $2,500,000 is available to fund work on the assessment of national water resources supplies and demands required by section 101 (c) of the Planning Act. The first of such assessments was completed in 1968. Work on this assessment was supported by the member agencies of the Council |