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Ecy: 



Granger: 

 Fry: 



Granger; 



where a private utility and the REA were both seeking 

 a permit for installation of a line to serve the 

 same area, priority would be given to the EEA appli 

 cation. 



Were these battles between you and the REA Director 

 or between higher-ups? 



They were between us and the REA Director. 

 What was the outcome of the conflict regarding 

 placement of power lines away from roads? 

 I think the Forest Service prevailed, as I recall it. 



Federal Power Commission and Bureau of Public Roads 



At times it took some doing to get these agencies 

 to have due regard for national forest values. Both 

 suffered from the general theory of engineers that 

 the shortest distance between two points is a 

 straight line. No major crises developed, however. 



Decentralization in the Forest Service 



Pinchot inaugurated decentralization at the very 



n 

 start. Quoting from his book Break New Ground, 



&quot;The new regulations made it absolutely clear... that 

 *Pinchot, Gifford, Breaking New ground, New York, 1947, 



