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On December 16, 1969, I wrote to Prof. Carroll L. Wilson of MIT’s 
Sloan School of Management indicating my willingness to cooperate 
in the development of such a seminar.! During the ensuing spring 
term, the program was initiated. National land use policy was selected 
as the issue to be studied, because at that time the committee staff 
was preparing draft legislation (S. 3354) to establish a national policy 
and a nationwide program for land use planning. 
Although there was insufficient time to prepare a carefully directed 
program for that semester, a number of professors and students who 
were engaged in programs related to the general issue expressed interest 
in the committee’s activities. Members of the committee staff met with 
the participants at MIT twice during the school term to discuss the 
legislation. Mr. Michael Telson, representing the MIT group, visited 
the committee on several occasions and acted as project coordinator. 
A number of students prepared papers which directly relate to 
problems of land use policy and land use management. I have ordered 
the texts, or in some cases appropriate excerpts from the texts, of those 
papers printed for the use of the committee, the Congress, the execu- 
tive branch, and others who have an interest in land use management. 
Together with the hearings on S. 3354 these papers provide a thorough 
and recent compilation of materials dealing with the need for a national 
land-use policy. They will be of value to scholars and students of public 
administration in evaluating alternative policies and strategies for 
future management of the Nation’s land resource base. 
I am hopeful that this unique association between the committee 
and university faculty members and students will provide experience 
for further refinement, expansion, and development of similar coopera- 
tive projects. Based on this current experience, I feel certain that the 
contribution of the university community to the ongoing work of this 
committee can be greatly increased. The potential benefits of such 
activities to the committee, the students, and perhaps ultimately to 
other schools and legislative groups, I believe, warrant our further 
efforts. 
Henry M. Jackson, Chairman. 
D&EcEMBER 16, 1969. 
Prof. Carrot L. Witson, 
Sloan School of Management, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Dear Proressor Witson: As you are aware, Messrs. William H. 
Matthews and Michael L. Telson of M.I.T. met with the staff of the 
Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs to discuss your 
interest in organizing a seminar at M.1.T. 
As I understand it, the seminar would provide advanced students 
of various disciplines with an opportunity to participate in studies 
which are relevant to a current issue of interest to the Committee. 
The particular area of interest to the Committee. The particular 
area of interest which was discussed as a topic for a seminar in the 
spring term of 1970, and perhaps the following summer, was national 
land-use policies. 
1 The text of the letter is printed at the conclusion of this memorandum. 
