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The Departments of Commerce and Housing and Urban Develop- 
ment are associate members and the Department of Justice and the 
Bureau of the Budget are observers. Federal-interstate river basin 
commissions, established at the request of the State Governors, are now 
functioning in 15 of the 30 coastal States and alternative Federal- 
State planning coordinating mechanisms are active in the remaining 
coastal States. 
The Federal agencies of the Water Resources Council are working 
with the States in these mechanisms, under the general leadership of 
the Council, in various stages of incipient or active comprehensive 
planning for the Nation’s water and related land resources, both 
coastal and inland. The planning projects population, economic and 
environmental considerations to the year 2020 and proposes coordinated 
measures to satisfy the projected needs. 
Notwithstanding the need to consider alternatives such as the one 
T have just illustrated, we recognize that if a new independent Federal 
agency is created to meet broad oceanic needs, such an agency would 
have an obvious interest in the coast. A good way for this agency to 
influence coastal decisions might be for it to become a member of the 
Water Resources Council and the Federal-interstate field organiza- 
toins now working activity with it. 
The problems of the Great Lakes are of major national and regional 
importance, but placing them primarily under the leadership of an 
oceanic agency may not facilitate their solution. These problems are 
not basically oceanic in character. 
The lakes form one large, interconnected river basin system. In 
their hydraulic, biologic, water quality and legal aspects they are 
much more closely related to rivers and inland lakes than they are to 
the world ocean. Most approaches to their eutrophication problems 
envision the control of pollution on their tributary rivers and the use, 
as pilot models, of smaller eutrophying inland lakes to provide a 
practical base for needed experimentation. 
The Great Lakes Basin Commission, under the leadership of the 
Water Resources Council, is currently engaged in a major, long-range, 
coordinated, interagency, Federal-interstate program of compre- 
hensive planning considering both the landward and lacustrine prob- 
lems of this basin as a unified system. 
T would like to provide for the record an extract from the Great 
Lakes Basin Commission’s plan of study to illustrate the scope of its 
framework investigation and the integrated Federal and State mem- 
bership on task forces which are now carrying out this work. See 
attached exhibit 1. 
The members of this Commission, both Federal and State, have the 
requisite, basic functional authority to implement the joint plan. — 
Mr. Lennon. General, would it be your desire to have the exhibit 
you referred to incorporated into the record immediately following 
that paragraph ? 
General Korscn. Yes, sir. 
Mr. Lennon. Without objection, it shall be done. 
