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in the United States, trotted out a Redstone missile and put our "thing" 

 in space. Later developments speak for themselves. 



Creation of new agencies or just dollar expenditures will not neces- 

 sarily contribute to solution of our problem. Now appears to be time 

 when we should trot out our hardware and "get some action" as our 

 quoted Governor indicates. 



RECOMMENDATIONS 



(a) That State-Federal partnership role be strengthened and 

 broadened to include water resources management authorities for the 

 U.S. basin areas. A Federal-interstate compact similar to the Delaware 

 Elver compact could serve to effect such organization. 



(b) That the Federal representative (s) on Federal-interstate com- 

 pact agencies have full access to and be assisted by the various Federal 

 departments and agencies. 



(c) For the Great Lakes region, that an international partnership 

 role be developed with Canada through an agency constituted similarly 

 to the International Joint Commission, with authority to manage 

 water. 



(d) That fragmented water resources management authorities and 

 capabilities be brought together, consolidated and integrated to reduce 

 multiplicity of agencies and overlapping authorities and interests. 



Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



Dr. Alexander. Thank you, Colonel. We now open the meeting for 

 discussion. Yes ? 



Dr. Herbert Foreander. Herbert Forlander, Oregon State. I would 

 like to address my remarks particularly to ]Mr. Duddleson's comments 

 and then some that came later, relating to the type of work that should 

 be done to help solve some of our problems. 



I would first of all mention that people are at the edge of the sea for 

 very good reason. You have heard a lot of us say that yesterday, and 

 a lot today, and I submit that it is not ju&i another land problem, but 

 they are at the edge of the sea because of the sea's presence and the 

 utilization there. 



It was pointed out a few years ago by a former lieutenant in the 

 U.S. Navy, Matthew Maury, and in books written about it since then, 

 that we have a continuum whether we like it or not and wliat we do at 

 the edge of the sea has a reason far beyond the continental edge. What 

 we do at the edge has implications far beyond any coastal region. 



We have a group such as the Department of the Interior which is 

 responsible for the land, as has been well said. They have many 

 responsibilities and jobs and are quite busy taking care of these par- 

 ticular jobs. The question was raised yesterday by the gentleman 

 from Louisiana. He was asked what do I do with a million pounds 

 of oxygen trioxide which somebody wants to dump? He challenged 

 this audience as to what to do if this were dumped and nobody 

 answered the challenge. 



I submit that rather than just being regulatory, we need research 

 to answer such questions with which we are stuck, whether we like it 

 or not. We had similar questions when I was in the Puget Sound area 

 from people wanting to dump. "V^Hiere do we put it ? We have examples 

 of pesticides showing up probably thousands of miles from the place 



