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Tliis was voiced by the gentleman from Illinois yesterday. These 

 remarks of the Governors are well-taken, because our study and plan- 

 ning programs are overwhelmed by specific interests and minutia. 

 There is a tendency to dodge or delay implementing as to what may 

 be accomplished through studies. 



For example : 



( 1) There are about 32 million people in the Great Lakes basin, 

 and they are going to be there for some time to come. Their 

 presence must be recognized and provided for. Tliese people affect 

 water quality and have a demand for adequate water supply. 



(2) Physical and commercial geography aspects, in being and to 

 be developed, must be recognized — steel plants, light and heavy 

 manufacturing, good fishing and recreation — and fostered; 



(3) There must be a balanced use of the local, State and Fed- 

 eral dollars that are available ; and 



(4) And so forth. Our planning and studies must concurrently 

 look at the small details, and also explore and recognize the 

 broad possibilities and limitations, includmg feasibility of plans. 



CONCLUSIONS 



Fundamentally, the Federal locus must be one that provides : 



(a) Less fragmented or more positively an integrated Federal or- 

 ganization — pull the parts together — one that can provide goals and 

 objectives to States which in turn will provide goals and objectives to 

 localities and industr}'. 



(b) Regional organizations — one or more States — ^to manage water 

 resources matters which must be approached as multi-State matters — 

 composed of the buildmg block operating States and the participat- 

 ing Federal Government in an organization that will have the author- 

 ity to act as needed. 



(c) Federal funding assistance. Let's look at block grants rather 

 than the grant-in-aid program, and let the State people at least try 

 to manage some of their business there which the States can undertake 

 as they have in establishing water quality standards. 



(d) An international organization to manage or effect coordination 

 of water resources matters with Federal and Provmcial entities in 

 Canada. 



Ideally, the proposed National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency 

 may have possibilities as the central Federal agency if it supplants 

 existing agencies, rather than becomes just another organizational 

 layer. 



No matter how hard we plan and how much money we spend to plan, 

 Chicago and Detroit exist ; we need them ; and it will be quite a long 

 time before we can conceivably make national lakeshores out of their 

 present locations — real estate. So is it now with the existing system— 

 the entities are there and will remain so presumably for some time. 



Perhaps the Hoover report approach is what we need now, rather 

 than one that may have been ideal for the United States in 1776 A.D, 

 or as someone suggested, 1492 or earlier. Since 1957 we have been sub- 

 ject and have overreacted to the sputnik syndrome, the scientific and 

 education gap, and cries for expanded research efforts. Characteristi- 

 cally, however, to meet the immediate sputnik challange in 1957 we, 



