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fully, from this conference. There are the proposed landscaping 

 enhancement proposals before the Congress, to which reference has 

 already been made. These, of course, are worthy of your support. 



I would refer also to the Wild Rivers bill. The Wild Rivers bill 

 is not just concerned with the wilderness areas of our country. It 

 has advanced sharply the concept of alternative use of rivers for 

 scenic beauty versus storage for uses such as water supply, flood con- 

 trol, and power. Experience on rivers such as the Hudson and St. 

 Croix has shown the need for this. 



It is an essential fact of planning that we plan for alternatives. In 

 this way the public can express its desire, where for example, the 

 cheaper plans might desecrate beauty. But water-related land will 

 never be properly planned, if State and local governments are not 

 full partners in the planning process. This is the importance, as I 

 see it, of title II of the Water Resources Planning Act, for it is they 

 who must plan to make specific renewal of waterfront lands. 



Under our constitutional system it cannot be the Federal bureau- 

 crats who do the specific planning for waterfront lands. It must 

 be non-Federal people working on the subject. It is the State and 

 local function to zone industrial location from the standpoint of scenic 

 beauty and from the point of view of handling the pollution prob- 

 lem, both air and water. It is they who must regulate urban and 

 suburban erosion of land as a source of pollution. It cannot be the 

 Federal Government. Pollution control generally, including sewage 

 treatment, is a local function supplemented on interstate and navi- 

 gational bases by Federal law. It is very important to always remem- 

 ber that State and local governments must provide, one way or 

 another, the organized source to meet the reimbursement require- 

 ments of the Federal Government for many developments which are 

 provided under Federal legislation. 



Not only do Federal, State, and local governments require an 

 official planning environment as provided under title II of the Water 

 Resources Planning Act, but the private groups will become even 

 more important than ever in the past, by reason of the concerns of 

 this conference. It is only private groups which are organized in 

 the community to recognize the values of wild rivers, or scenic beauty, 

 or recreational requirements for clean water. They provide a con- 

 sciousness in the basin and in the city of these values. It is through 

 them that these values are discussed in the newspapers and elsewhere. 

 It is only in this environment that the Federal, State, and local gov- 



