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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 re- 

 covering archeological and paleontological remains which would 

 otherwise be lost as a result of the numerous projects for flood con- 

 trol, 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 

 undertaking, the Smithsonian Institution organized the River Basin 

 Surveys as a miit of the Bureau of American Ethnology. The Na- 

 tional Park Service has served as liaison between the various agencies 

 and has provided the Smithsonian Institution with all 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 Department of the Interior appropriations. The operations 

 of the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, have been sup- 

 ported 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 is the fifth 

 bulletin, are issued under the scientifiG editorship of Frank 

 H. H. Roberts, Jr., director of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology. 



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INSTITUTiON JAN 2 5 1951 



