APPENDIX MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE WATER-FLOW COMMITTEES HELD IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, FEBRUARY 20, 1934, AT 4 P.M. Present: Secretary Ickes, chairman; Secretary Dern; Mr. Delano; Charles W. Eliot, 2d; Morris Cooke; General Pillsbury, Office, Chief of Engineers; Mr. Paulsen; Mr. Hartman; Mr. Pieters; Mr. Chapline; Mr. Wooten; Mr. Horton; Mr. Grover; Colonel Edgerton; Captain Stamps; Mr. Sparhawk; Mr. Clayton; Mr. Bennett; Major McCoach; Commissioner Mead; Mr. Hastings; Mr. Jones; Colonel Barden; Mr. Meinzer; Mr. McCrory; and Mr. Norcross. The Secretary of the Interior announced that in pursuance to the Norris resolution, the President has appointed a Cabinet committee consisting of the Secretaries of Interior, War, Agriculture, and Labor; and six technical subcommittees to study water resources, including drainage, soil erosion, irrigation, etc., in six regions as follows: Atlantic slope, Gulf, east Mississippi, west Mississippi, Great Lakes, and Pacific slope. Each committee is expected to submit a report on projects to be considered over a 25- or 50-year period and to select 10 projects in order of priority for each region at the earliest practicable date. From the 60 projects thus chosen, the Cabinet committee will select 10 for submission to the President. The Secretary emphasized that the survey was preliminary in character and that it should be concluded in a month or 6 weeks from this date; that after the preliminary report the question of more detailed study would be considered by the President and the Cabinet committee. The Secretary called attention to the work now being done by the National Planning Board and the Mississippi Valley Committee under the Public Works Administration and offered the cooperation of these two agencies in an advisory capacity. The War Department representative located in Washington was designated as the chairman of each subcommittee and each of them was requested to call a meeting of his subcommittee at the earliest practicable date. Mr. Eliot, executive officer of the National Planning Board, will provide secretarial assistance for coordination of the work. The chairmen of the subcommittees on east Mississippi, west Mississippi, and Gulf regions were requested to confer with Mr. Eliot immediately to agree upon jurisdictional divisions for their regions. CHARLES W. ELIOT, 2D., Acting Secretary for the Administrator. 65854-34—5 A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE IMPROVEMENT AND THE ATLANTIC REGION REPORT OF THE REGIONAL TECHNICAL ADVISORY SUBCOMMITTEE Priorities and rough estimates of cost... Importance of underground water in the Atlantic drainage area. 62 Page LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL WASHINGTON, D.C., March 26, 1934. Subject: Report on the Atlantic region. To: The President's Committee on Water Flow. 1. In accordance with the oral instructions received February 20, 1934, from the Secretary of the Interior, I transmit the report of the Technical Advisory Committee for the Atlantic region. EARL I. BROWN, Chairman. |