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problem up to this point has been this philosophy, that if it is a park, 

 it is free, and certainly if it is a park it is open. So it is easy. 



Somehow they seem to be able to find a blue pencil that hits that 

 green spot. 



LESLIE H. GOULD. I am not sure whether this is a question to 

 Senator Farr or Dr. Levin or a comment made for the edification 

 of the Nevada State highway engineer, Otis Wright. 



It is nothing new for two State agencies to undo each other's 

 work and nothing new for two Federal agencies to undo each other's 

 work, but in Nevada we have the prospect of four of them getting 

 together on the job. I mean the Nevada Tahoe State Park. I am 

 talking about the new park in Nevada, the last piece of natural-look- 

 ing land around the lakeshore. We have prospects of acquiring 

 this land sometime during the next few months. It is characterized 

 by steep rugged cliffs arising from a very shallow, relatively level area 

 along the lakeshore. A narrow road now makes its own way south 

 down this relatively level area. 



If we get this land, it is going to be partly with matching funds 

 obtained from Mr. Udall's department. If we get this land there 

 is going to be more usage of it, and already the people at each end 

 of the lake are clamoring to have the road widened and Mr. Wright 

 of the highway department thinks they have something on their side. 



On the other hand, if we get this road widened there is not much 

 sense in our going to the trouble of having a park there because there 

 isn't room for both the park and a super highway. The State park 

 system is going to acquire this land almost immediately and almost 

 immediately the highway department is going to take it over and 

 build a road in it. We are going to acquire it with partly Federal 

 money, perhaps up to 50 percent for acquisition and development. 

 And Mr. Wright is going to use 89 percent of Federal money to 

 destroy it. 



I wonder if this isn't going to be a problem that is going to recur 

 in many of the projects envisioned under the Conservation Act. I 

 wonder if something can't be done now to form some kind of policy 

 that will prevent this kind of dilemma, this kind of problem from 

 occurring. 



JACK B. ROBERTSON. Mr. Chairman, I would recommend that as 

 a minimum, when you make your report to the President, that you 

 would recommend at least one demonstration scenic highway in each 

 State to be authorized. I believe if we can have one stretch of high- 



