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and beauty and so on, and yet these are a fundamental part of the 

 range of values. 



I would like to suggest, Mr. Chairman, that in the new housing 

 bill now before Congress, a provision be included for demonstration 

 projects. This has been done in a number of other pieces of legis- 

 lation where the Congress has made money available for certain 

 kinds of demonstration projects within a certain field. I would like 

 to suggest that these demonstration programs be applied, at least in 

 some instances, for those kinds of situations as, for example, in 

 waterfronts, whereby all the agencies of the Federal and local gov- 

 ernments and any other private interest concerned can be coordinated 

 in a single program. 



Most of the language of these demonstration programs, the pro- 

 visions of the act, are so written as to give a great deal of leeway. 

 I think with administrative approval and with the provision of funds 

 by the Congress it will be perfectly possible to have a half dozen or 

 a dozen demonstration projects throughout the country to indicate 

 how the waterfront can be developed for utility and beauty as well. 



The question was asked this morning by Mr. Davis are the 

 cities ready? I know of several instances where the cities are ready. 

 The Austin Town Lake project, 6 miles of waterfront on both sides 

 in the City of Austin, Tex., is now ready to undertake such a demon- 

 stration project. I could mention others. 



One of the very real difficulties we find in our work at the local 

 level is the fracturing of programs and the fracturing of the expendi- 

 ture of funds. If somehow we can find a way of working so that 

 the Federal programs, as well as the local programs, are coordinated 

 rather than done piecemeal and in conflict with one another, I think 

 we can find a very good way of meeting some of our problems. 



Mr. WIRTH. I would like to make a comment on this. I have had 

 a good example. 



In certain flood control activities in Florida, the Corps of Engineers 

 has drained all the fresh water out of the Everglades. So this year 

 all of the birds left, and they left their nests and young. The Corps 

 of Engineers gave no consideration whatsoever to the Everglades and 

 the fact that they needed fresh water along with the salt water. That 

 is an example of why I recommended that there be a central agency 

 to review every one of these projects before anything is started. 



Here is a State that gave the government 1.5 million acres and $2 

 million to establish the Everglades National Park, and this year the 



