EXPLANATION OF THE INTER-AGENCY 

 ARCHEOLOGICAL SALVAGE PROGRAM 



The Inter- Agency Archeological Salvage Program is a cooperative 

 plan of the Smithsonian Institution ; the National Park Service and 

 the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; and the 

 Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army. It was formulated, 

 through a series of interbureau agreements, for the purpose of recov- 

 ering archeological and paleontological remains that would other- 

 wise be lost as a result of the numerous projects for flood control, 

 irrigation, hydroelectric power, and navigation improvements in the 

 river basins of the United States. Various State and local agencies 

 have assisted in the work. To carry out its part of the joint under- 

 taking, the Smithsonian Institution organized the River Basin Sur- 

 veys as a unit of the Bureau of American Ethnology. The National 

 Park Service has served as liaison between the various agencies and 

 has provided the Smithsonian Institution with all of the necessary 

 information pertaining to the location of proposed dams and other 

 construction and their priorities. It has also had responsibility for 

 budgeting costs of the program, funds for which are provided in the 

 annual appropriations of the Department of the Interior. The opera- 

 tions of the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, have been 

 supported by funds transferred to it from the National Park Service. 

 Through agreements with the National Park Service, money has also 

 been made available to State and local agencies to supplement their 

 own resources and aid them in their contributions to the program. 



The Rii)er Basin Surveys Papers^ of which this is the ninth 

 huUetin^ are issued under the scientifw editorship of Frank 

 H. H. Roherts^ Jr.^ director of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, 



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