Gregg, Frank, vice president, the Conservation Foundation. Gregor, H. P., professor physical chemistry, Polytechnic Institute Shea, Evan P., senior chemical engineer, Midwest Research In- 168 Udall, Hon. Stewart L., Secretary of the Interior.. 191 132 Wilm, Dr. Harold G., associate dean of the College of Forestry, Zimmerman, Gordon K., executive secretary, National Association Bronn, Carl H., executive director, National Reclamation Asso- ciation, to Congressman Walter Rogers, dated February 14, Dearing, Bruce, president, State University of New York at Hausbeck, Albert J., chairman, Temporary State Commission on Water Resources Planning, to Hon. Wayne Aspinall, dated Holum, Kenneth, Assistant Secretary of the Interior to Hon. 161 192 65 193 193 Walker, Eric A., president, the Pennsylvania State University, Summary of remaining flow, withdrawals, consumptive uses and losses, flow requirements for pollution abatement, and exist- Johnson, President Lyndon B., to the Secretary of Defense and List of professors doing research in water resources. Office of Water Resources Research annual allotment program, Selected list of studies and publications on water and related re- sources supported by or carried out by the Conservation Foun- 40 WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1966 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON IRRIGATION AND RECLAMATION, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 9:50 a.m., in room 1324, Longworth House Office Building, the Honorable Walter Rogers (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Mr. ROGERS. The Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation will come to order, for the consideration of pending bills. The subcommittee has under consideration this morning S. 22, which has passed the Senate, and the companion House bills, to promote a more adequate national program of water research. This would be accomplished by amending the Water Resources Research Act of 1964, to restore title II as originally proposed. The members of the committee will recall that in 1964 the committee and the House deleted title II from the legislation. A token title II program was agreed on in the conference and is included in Public Law 88-379. However, the President objected to certain language providing for committee review; and no funds have been requested to implement the title II program. This expanded program calls for Federal financial support of non-Federal research. The legislation authorized the appropriation of $5 million in the first year of the program, increasing $1 million annually for 5 years and continuing in the amount of $10 million thereafter. As I pointed out, the bill S. 22 has already passed the Senate. We have several identical bills introduced in the House, H.R. 3606, by Mr. O'Brien, of New York, and a member of this committee; H.R. 5930, by Mr. Hanley; H.R. 6282, by Mr. Pickle; H.R. 8916, by Mr. Ashley. Without objection, H.R. 3606 will be considered by the committee and included in the record along with a copy of Public Law 88-379, with the proper reference being made to the other measures pending before the subcommittee, with a copy of S. 22 also included. We have received a report from the Department of Interior under date of May 28, 1965, over the signature of the Honorable Kenneth Holum, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, which will also be ineluded in the record at this point. (The documents referred to follow :) [H.R. 3606, 89th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To promote a more adequate national program of water research Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) Section 200 of Public Law 88-379 of the Eighty-eighth Congress is repealed; and (b) That there is enacted in lieu thereof the following: "SEC. 200. There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior $5,000,000 in fiscal year 1966, increasing $1,000,000 annually for five years, and continuing at $10,000,000 annually thereafter from which he may make grants, contracts, matching, or other arrangements with educational institutions, private foundations, or other institutions; with private firms and individuals; and with loca!, State, or Federal Government agencies, to undertake research into any aspects of water problems related to the mission of the Department of the Interior, which may be deemed desirable and are not otherwise being studied." PUBLIC LAW 88-379, 88TH CONGRESS, S. 2, JULY 17, 1964 (78 STAT. 329) AN ACT To establish water resources research centers, to promote a more adequate national program of water research, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) this Act may be cited as the "Water Resources Research Act of 1964." (b) In order to assist in assuring the Nation at all times of a supply of water sufficient in quantity and quality to meet the requirements of its expanding population, it is the purpose of the Congress, by this Act, to stimulate, sponsor, provide for, and supplement present programs for the conduct of research, investigations, experiments, and the training of scientists in the fields of water and of resources which affect water. TITLE I-STATE WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH INSTITUTES SEC. 100. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year 1965 and each subsequent year thereafter sums adequate to provide $75,000 to each of the several States in the first year, $87,500 in each of the second and third years, and $100,000 each year thereafter to assist each participating State in establishing and carrying on the work of a competent and qualified water resources research institute, center, or equivalent agency (hereinafter referred to as "institute") at one college or university in that State, which college or university shall be a college or university established in accordance with the Act approved July 2, 1862 (12 Stat. 503), entitled “An Act donating public lands to the several States and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts" or some other institution designated by Act of the legislature of the State concerned: Provided, That (1) if there is more than one such college or university in a State, established in accordance with said Act of July 2, 1862, funds under this Act shall, in the absence of a designation to the contrary by act of the legislature of the State, be paid to the one such college or university designated by the Governor of the State to receive the same subject to the Secretary's determination that such college or university has, or may reasonably be expected to have, the capability of doing effective work under this Act; (2) two or more States may cooperate in the designation of a single interstate or regional institute, in which event the sums assignable to all of the cooperating States shall be paid to such institute; and (3) a designated college or university may, as authorized by appropriate State authority, arrange with other colleges and universities within the State to participate in the work of the institute. (b) It shall be the duty of each such institute to plan and conduct and/or arrange for a component or components of the college or university with which it is affiliated to conduct competent research, investigations, and experiments of either a basic or practical nature, or both, in relation to water resources and to provide for the training of scientists through such research, investigations, and experiments. Such research, investigations, experiments, and training may include, without being limited to, aspects of the hydrologic cycle; supply and demand for water; conservation and best use of available supplies of water; methods of increasing such supplies; and economic, legal, social, engineering, recreational, biological, geographic, ecological, and other aspects of water problems, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States, to water research projects being conducted by agencies of the Federal and State Governments, the agricultural experiments stations, and others, and to avoidance of any undue displacement of scientists and engineers elsewhere engaged in water resources research. SEC. 101. (a) There is further authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the interior for the fiscal year 1965 and each subsequent year thereafter sums not in excess of the following: 1965, $1,000,000; 1966, $2,000,000; 1967, $3,000,000; 1968, $4,000,000; and 1969 and each of the succeeding years, $5,000,000. Such moneys when appropriated, shall be available to match, on a dollar-for-dollar basis, funds made available to institutes by States or other non-Federal sources to meet the necessary expenses of specific water resources research projects which could not otherwise be undertaken, including the expenses of planning and coordinating regional water resources research projects by two or more institutes. (b) Each application for a grant pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall, among other things, state the nature of the project to be undertaken, the period during which it will be pursued, the qualifications of the personnel who will direct and conduct it, the importance of the project to the water economy of the Nation, the region, and the State concerned, its relation to other known research projects theretofore pursued or currently being pursued, and the extent to which it will provide opportunity for the training of water resources scientists. No grant shall be made under said subsection (a) except for a project approved by the Secretary, and all grants shall be made upon the basis of the merit of the project, the need for the knowledge which it is expected to produce when completed, and the opportunity it provides for the training of water resources scientists. SEC. 102. Sums available to the States under the terms of sections 100 and 101 of this Act shall be paid to their designated institutes at such times and in such amounts during each fiscal year as determined by the Secretary, and upon vouchers approved by him. Each institute shall have an officer appointed by its governing authority who shall receive and account for all funds paid under the provisions of this Act and shall make an annual report to the Secretary on or before the 1st day of September of each year, on work accomplished and the status of projects underway, together with a detailed statement of the amounts received under any of the provisions of this Act during the preceding fiscal year, and of its disbursement, on schedules prescribed by the Secretary. If any of the moneys received by the authorized receiving officer of any institute under the provisions of this Act shall by any action or contingency be found by the Secretary to have been improperly diminished, lost, or misapplied, it shall be replaced by the State concerned and until so replaced no subsequent appropriation shall be allotted or paid to any institute of such State. SEC. 103. Moneys appropriated pursuant to this Act, in addition to being available for expenses for research, investigations, experiments, and training conducted under authority of this Act, shall also be available for printing and publishing the results thereof and for administrative planning and direction. The institutes are hereby authorized and encouraged to plan and conduct programs financed under this Act in cooperation with each other and with such other agencies and individuals as may contribute to the solution of the water problems involved, and moneys appropriated pursuant to this Act shall be available for paying the necessary expenses of planning, coordinating, and conducting such cooperative research. SEC. 104. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby charged with the respon sibility for the proper administration of this Act and, after full consultation with other interested Federal agencies, shall prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out its provisions. He shall require a showing that institutes designated to receive funds have, or may reasonably be expected to have, the capability of doing effective work. He shall furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote the purposes of this Act, participate in coordinating research initiated under this Act by the institutes, indicate to them such lines of inquiry as to him seem most important, and encourage and assist in the establishment and maintenance of cooperation by and between the institutes and between them and other research organizations, the United States Department of the Interior, and other Federal establishments. On or before the 1st day of July in each year after the passage of this Act, the Secretary shall ascertain whether the requirements of section 102 have been met as to each State, whether it is entitled to receive its share of the annual appropriations of water resources research under section 100 of this Act, and the amount which it is entitled to receive. The Secretary shall make an annual report to the Congress of the receipts and expenditures and work of the institutes in all States under the provisions of this Act. His report shall indicate whether any portion of an appropriation |