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 River Basin Surveys Papers, of which this ts the eighth 
bulletin, are issued under the scientific editorship of Frank 
H. H. Roberts, Jr., director of the Bureau of American 
Ethnology. 
