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ernment planners can be responsive in preparing alternative plans 

 that could possibly meet these very needs of the people in the 

 community. 



It is not only on the Potomac where we have a historic problem, 

 for 50 years, of considering how the river should be used. Right now, 

 as many of you know, San Francisco Bay may be filled in and a large 

 residential development established. In San Francisco Bay, unless 

 these questions of alternative use of the area as a scenic and recrea- 

 tional resource are fully discussed and private people participate 

 along with the government planners, we will have a result which I 

 am sure many of us would not want 50 years from now. 



The Great Lakes are another area of great concern where this type 

 of Federal, State, and local planning is required. The hopeful de- 

 velopment in Jersey City towards turning waterfront areas into park- 

 lands associated with the Statue of Liberty is a beginning in the way 

 of waterfront renovation. 



I suggest that we, at Federal, State, local, and private levels, are 

 on the threshold of new opportunity with the Water Resources 

 Planning Act. I trust that we will all support this type of endeavor 

 to realize all the values that can be achieved from our water and 

 related land, not only for the waterfront but for the whole basin 

 in each of our river basins. 



Representative BOLTON. First, I want to thank Mr. Feiss for 

 mentioning Shaker Lakes in Cleveland. They are the last bit of 

 beauty we have left and the unconscionable engineers are consider- 

 ing putting a highway through them, just to let a few people get to 

 the bus a little faster. We feel poisonous about that. 



It is also very good to note that the President has called for the 

 Potomac to be the model for the various things that we all hope will 

 be accomplished. 



It is especially good having this conference put emphasis on new 

 methods. We can no longer use the old ways, when preservation of 

 natural beauty was primarily in private hands. I am happy to be 

 able to bring to you something of a new method which has been 

 tried. 



The decade ending this month has been one of incredible change 

 in the preservation-conservation movement. 



My task today is to report to you on that change as we, in the 

 Accokeek Foundation have lived through it, and to indicate the new 

 areas of change we see ahead. 



