632 CONFERENCE ON NATURAL BEAUTY 



Now, we have something over one hour for these final reports. 

 Our panel chairmen realize it is impossible to make a complete report 

 in that time. They each have five minutes. They will tell us 

 what concerned them most, and I hope you will all understand that 

 they have this limit.* 



Federal-State-Local Partnership 



The Chairman, Mr. GODDARD. The President has issued a call for 

 a "creative federalism." Preservation of the natural beauty of our 

 Nation will require wholehearted cooperation and creativeness among 

 all levels of government and the people they serve. 



This panel recommends at the Federal level: 



1. The establishment of a National Council on Natural Beauty 

 and Recreation. This Council would broaden the present Recreation 

 Advisory Council. The panel recommends a permanent, Presiden- 

 tially appointed Chairman within the Federal establishment. The 

 President should also appoint a Citizens' Advisory Committee on 

 Natural Beauty and Recreation which shall advise the President on 

 setting priorities for national policy. 



2. The Council on Natural Beauty and Recreation should be 

 provided a full-time staff competent in fields of environmental plan- 

 ning, resource conservation, quality standards, recreation, and com- 

 munity planning. 



3. The President should issue an Executive order instructing all 

 Federal agencies to take advantage of and consider the environ- 

 mental, aesthetic, and recreational aspects of their programs in order 

 to improve and maintain the natural beauty of the United States, 

 and to establish, as a performance requirement of Federal grants, 

 that all projects contribute to local comprehensive plans for recreation 

 and natural beauty. 



4. The President should ask the new Council, as its first task, to 

 undertake a review of the many current Federal grant-in-aid pro- 

 grams dealing with our environment, recreation, and natural beauty, 

 to recommend steps for eliminating program conflicts and duplica- 

 tion, and to identify means to facilitate State and local participation 

 with a minimum of confusion. 



5. A shortage of qualified personnel threatens to be one of the 



*To hew to this limit some of the panel chairmen had to abridge their reports; 

 in this chapter the reports are printed in full. 



