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tion, and to minimize costs by acting ahead of reservoir filling to build 

 marinas, to develop park areas and other water's edge facilities. I 

 think, Mr. Clay, that this approach is a beginning answer to the 

 question that you raised. 



Mr. WEAVER. May I say something? 



I would like very much to urge each one of us here who happens to 

 live in a city where you have river banks, to look at your own cities 

 and see what we have done to these river banks. I am always 

 struck by people who go 30 or 40 miles to get to some water when 

 they have it right at home, and have misused it and let it be misused 

 to the degree that it has been. Now we have in the pending legisla- 

 tion for the Housing and Home Finance Agency a small program to 

 assist in the beautification of such areas. But this program isn't 

 going to be worth anything unless there are many, many places 

 where many, many people decide to do something about what I 

 think is one of the greatest abuses of our natural resources right in 

 our own backyards. 



Mr. SIMONDS. There are many governmental programs relating 

 to the creative planning of our cities, our roads and our countrysides 

 that are hard for us in the field to understand and to relate. We 

 are wondering, could it be considered a function of your Council to 

 prepare and keep current a manual listing these programs and out- 

 lining their essential provisions and application? 



Mr. CRAFTS. Some of this has been done. There are several 

 publications and lists of various ongoing Federal programs that are 

 available. Some of them have been put out by Commerce, Interior, 

 and I think Agriculture. 



But what has not been done, if I understood the question, is to 

 go into the detail and relationship of one to the other, and give sub- 

 stantive information about how they are interrelated. This has not 

 been done. 



Secretary FREEMAN. We will look into that. 



Mr. WEAVER. The difficulty is, you can do this under many, many 

 headings, and then you get this proliferated out almost ad infinitum. 

 If you take it from the point of view of a particular interested opera- 

 tion, then you get one catalog. If you take it from another point of 

 view, you get another. I am not so sure and not too sanguine that 

 you will ever be able to get out all the catalogs. I think it is almost 

 a custom job that has to be done. 



