Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1981: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, an Act Making Appropriations for Energy and Water Development for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1981, and for Other Purposes, Part 2

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Page 5 - ... if the benefits to whomsoever they may accrue are in excess of the estimated costs, and if the lives and social security of people are otherwise adversely affected.
Page 33 - Water Resources Planning Act". STATEMENT OF POLICY SEC. 2. In order to meet the rapidly expanding demands for water throughout the Nation, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to encourage the conservation, development, and utilization of water and related land resources of the United States on a comprehensive and coordinated basis by the Federal Government, States, localities, and private enterprise with the cooperation of all affected Federal agencies, States, local governments,...
Page 67 - States and the national interest therein; and (b) maintain a continuing study of the relation of regional or river basin plans and programs to the requirements of larger regions of the Nation and of the adequacy of administrative and statutory means for the coordination of the water and related land resources policies and programs of the several Federal agencies...
Page 67 - The Council shall establish, after such consultation with other interested entities, both Federal and non-Federal, as the Council may find appropriate, and with the approval of the President, principles, standards, and procedures for Federal participants in the preparation of comprehensive regional or river basin plans and for the formulation and evaluation of Federal water and related land resources projects.
Page 84 - For purposes of this section, the Upper Mississippi River System consists of those river reaches containing commercial navigation channels on the Mississippi River main stem north of Cairo, Illinois, the Minnesota River, Minnesota ; Black River, Wisconsin ; Saint Croix River, Minnesota and Wisconsin; Illinois River and Waterway, Illinois ; and Kaskaskia River, Illinois.
Page 663 - A reduction in water use is beneficial if the aggregate of all beneficial effects resulting from implementation of the water management practice exceeds the aggregate of all adverse effects occasioned by such implementation.
Page 37 - The greatest single weakness in the federal government's activities in the field of water resources development is the lack of cooperation and coordination of the federal agencies with each other and with the state and local interests.
Page 663 - Subcommittee on Urban Water Supply of the President's Intergovernmental Water Policy Task Force...
Page 60 - carry out a thorough evaluation of current agency practices for making benefit and cost calculations" and "publish a planning manual that will ensure that benefits and costs are estimated using the best current techniques and calculated accurately, consistently and in compliance with the Principles and Standards and other applicable economic evaluation requirements.

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