Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions and Boards: Records of the President's Water Resources Policy Commission (Record Group 220)

FOLDER TITLE LIST

Box 1

ADMINISTRATION: Administration Subject File

• General administration
• Organization: Establishment of Commission
• Organization: Committees and subcommittees
• Organization: Commission staff
• Relationship of Commission: Meetings with President and White House Staff
• Relationship of Commission: Relations with Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
• Relationship of Commission: Relations with House Committee on the Judiciary
• Meetings of Commissioners
• Commissioners' correspondence with Chairman
• Chairman's speeches
• Commissioner Renne's article on the Commission in Land Economics
• Press releases and conferences

ADMINISTRATION: General Subject File

• Benefits and costs
• Bibliography
• Conservation
• Costs

Box 2

• Dams
• Drainage
• Economic justification
• Education
• Erosion
• Farm production increase
• Federal-Government participation
• Federal-State division of authority
• Federal-State relations
• Fisheries
• Flood control and forecasting
• Forests

Box 3

• Ground water: Council of State Government investigations, by Frank Vane
• Ground water: Overdeveloped and neglected, by Harold E. Thomas
• Great Plains Council
• Historical
• Inventory of natural resources
• Investment appraisal
• Irrigation
• Land use and management
• Legislation: Congressional expression
• Legislation: Desirable legislation
• Legislation: Proposals, comments on
• Minority groups
• Multiple purpose
• Navigation
• New York City water shortage
• Origin, cosmic, of water on earth
• Policy

Box 4

• Power
• Pollution
• Priority
• Project feasibility
• Rainfall, artificial
• Rating of resources: people, water, land
• Reclamation projects, vermego, etc.
• Recreation
• Regional development
• Reservoirs
• Sea water
• Sedimentation
• Soil conservation
• State agency organization
• Supply: General
• Supply: Industrial
• Supply: Municipal
• Taxes
• Watershed management
• Wildlife

ADMINISTRATION: Alphabetical Name File

Box 5

• A to L

Box 6

• M to Z

ADMINISTRATION: General

Box 7

• Background information received from the Bureau of the Budget: Historical background
• Background information received from the Bureau of the Budget: Policy Questions, general
• Background information received from the Bureau of the Budget: Policy questions, particular projects
• Commissioners' attendance at meetings of other organizations

ADMINISTRATION: Commission's Field Conferences

• General: General correspondence
• General: Correspondence with Governors and Senators
• General: Itinerary
• Atlanta, Georgia: Correspondence

Box 8

• Atlanta, Georgia: Proceedings
• Atlanta, Georgia: Statistical data on Southern Company and its affiliates

Box 9

• Berkeley, California: Correspondence
  
• Berkeley, California: Proceedings, Volume I

Box 10

• Berkeley, California: Proceedings, Volume II
• Columbus, Ohio: Correspondence
• Columbus, Ohio: Proceedings

Box 11

• Denver, Colorado: Correspondence
• Denver, Colorado: Proceedings

Box 12

• Fayetteville, Arkansas: Correspondence
• Fayetteville, Arkansas: Proceedings, Volume I
• Fayetteville, Arkansas: Proceedings, Volume II

Box 13

• Sioux City, Iowa: Correspondence
• Sioux City, Iowa: Proceedings, Volume I
• Sioux City, Iowa: Proceedings, Volume II
• Spokane, Washington: Correspondence
• Spokane, Washington: Proceedings, Volume I

Box 14

• Spokane, Washington: Proceedings, Volume II
• Spokane, Washington: Proceedings, Volume III
• Spokane, Washington: Proceedings, Volume IV
• Springfield, Massachusetts: Correspondence

Box 15

• Springfield, Massachusetts: Proceedings

ADMINISTRATION: Surveys by Questionnaire and Correspondence, General

• Letters to various groups and individuals requesting cooperation
• Questionnaire of March 17, 1950

ADMINISTRATION: Survey of Federal Government Agencies: Correspondence with the Commission

• General: Commission letters to agencies
  
• General: Federal Interagency River Basin Committee

Box 16

• Agriculture, Department of: General Reports
• Agriculture, Department of: Office of the Secretary
• Agriculture, Department of: Bureau of Agricultural Economics
• Agriculture, Department of: Agricultural Research Administration
• Agriculture, Department of: Forest Service
• Agriculture, Department of: Soil Conservation Service

Box 17

• Army, Department of:
  • Office of the Secretary
    Office of Chief of Engineers
• Atomic Energy Commission
• Commerce, Department of:
  • General:
    • Reports
    Census Bureau, Public Roads Bureau, Bureau
    • of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Bureau
      of Standards, Weather Bureau
• Executive Office of the President
  • Bureau of the Budget
    Council of Economic Advisers
• Federal Power Commission
• Federal Reserve Board
• Federal Security Agency
  • Office of Education
    Public Health Service
    • Reports
• General Services Administration
• Housing and Home Finance Agency
• Interior, Department of:
  • General:

Box 18

• • • Reports
  • Office of the Secretary
    Bonneville Power Administration
    Fish and Wildlife Service
    Geological Survey
    Indian Affairs Bureau
    National Park Service
    Reclamation Bureau
    • Re basis for formulating a water resources program for New Mexico
    Southwestern Power Administration
    Water and Power Division

Box 19

• International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico
• International Joint Commission
• International Monetary Fund
• Interstate Commerce Commission
• Justice, Department of
• Labor, Department of
• Library of Congress
• Naval Research Laboratory
• National Security Resources Board
• Reconstruction Finance Corporation
• Smithsonian Institution
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• Treasury Department

ADMINISTRATION: Survey of Federal Government Agencies: River Basin Reports from Agencies

• Alabama-Coosa River Basin:
  • Agriculture, Department of
    Office of Chief of Army Engineers
    Federal Power Commission
    Forest Service, Department of Agriculture
    Interior, Department of
    Pubic Health Service
  
  
  
   
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Box 20

• Arkansas-White River Basin:
  • Office of Chief Army Engineers
    Federal Power Commission
    Interior, Department of
    Public Health Service
• Central Valley Basin of California
  • Office of Chief of Army Engineers (Sacramento-San Joaquin River Basin)
    Agriculture, Department of
    Federal Power Commission
    Forest Service
    Interior, Department of
    • (North Fork King's River Development)
      (Central Valley Federal Reclamation Project)
      (Solano County Project, California)
      (Tentative cost allocation and financial analysis)

Box 21

• • • (Comprehensive report)
  • Federal Security Agency
• Colorado River Basin:
  • Agriculture, Department of
    Forest Service
    Federal Power Commission
    Interior, Department of
    Office of Army Engineers
    Public Health Service

Box 22

• Colombia River Basin:
  • Agriculture, Department of
    Federal Power Commission
    Forest Service
    Interior, Department of
    • (Modification of earlier report)
      (Data on projects in coordinated plan)
      (Bonneville Power Administration)
      (Bureau of Reclamation)
    Office of Chief of Army Engineers
    Public Health Service

Box 23

• Connecticut River Basin:
  • Agriculture, Department of
    Federal Power Commission
    Forest Service
    Interior, Department of
    Office of Army Engineers
    Public Health Service
• Delaware River Basin:
  • Federal Power Commission
    Interior, Department of
    Office of the Army Engineers
    Public Health Service
• Missouri River Basin:
  • Agriculture, Department of
    Federal Power Commission
    Forest Service
    Interior, Department of
    • (Progress report, March 1950)
      (Progress report, June 1950)
      (Report, July 1950)
      (Report on sufficiency of water supply)
      (Putting the Missouri to work)

Box 24

• • Office of Army Engineers
    Public Health Service
• Ohio River Basin:
  • Agriculture, Department of
    Federal Power Commission
    Interior, Department of
    Public Health Service
    Office of the Army Engineers
    State of Ohio, Department of Public Works
    State of Ohio, Department of Natural Resources

Box 25

• Potomac River Basin:
  • Agriculture, Department of
    Federal Power Commission
    Forest Service
    Interior, Department of
    Office of Chief of Army Engineers
    Public Health Service
• Rio Grande Basin:
  • Agriculture, Department of
    Federal Power Commission
    Interior, Department of
    Office of Chief of Army Engineers
    Public Health Service
• Tennessee River Basin:
  • Federal Power Commission
    Forest Service
    Office of Chief of Army Engineers
    Tennessee Valley Authority
    • (Annual Report, 1948)

ADMINISTRATION: Survey of Federal Government Agencies: Topical Reports of Federal Agencies

• Education, Office of:
  • "Material for the section on educational implications of the report being prepared by the PWRPC."

Box 26

• Federal Interagency River Basin Committee:
  • "Adequacy of basic data in hydrology and sedimentation."
• Federal Power Commission:
  • "Potential hydroelectric power in the United States."
• Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Bureau of:
  • "Current river basin activities."
• Forest Service:
  • "Watershed management, with particular reference to forest and range lands."
• Geological Survey:
  • "Water facts in relation to a national water-resources policy."
    "A summary of the water situation in the United States with special reference to surface water."
• Interagency group:
  • "The effects of land management upon runoff, erosion, and related factors."
• Public Health Service:
  • "A summary report on public water supply problems in the United States for communities with populations 1,000 to 50,000 and 50,000 and above."
    "Information on water pollution."
    "Statement as to the elements of a sound water resources policy for the nation."
    "A suggested State water pollution control act."
• Public Roads, Bureau of:
  • "Answer to request of March 18, 1950."
    "Water conservation in highway design and development."
• Tennessee Valley Authority:
  • Answer to questionnaire
• U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey:
  • "Development of national water resources."
• Weather Bureau:
  • "Weather Bureau functions in water resource development."

ADMINISTRATION: Survey of State and Local Government Agencies: Correspondence and Statements

Box 27

• Alabama
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• California
  • Los Angeles
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• District of Columbia
• Florida
• Georgia
• Idaho

Box 28

• Illinois
  • Decatur, City of
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan

Box 29

• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Montana
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New Mexico (1)
• New Mexico (2)
• New York

Box 30

• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas (1)
• Texas (2)

Box 31

• U.S. Territories and Possessions:
  • Alaska
    Hawaii
    Puerto Rico
    Virgin Islands
• Utah
• Vermont
• Virginia
• Washington
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming

• Survey of State and Local Government Agencies: Digest of Recommendations
  
  Survey of Trade and Industry Associations, Conservation Groups and Societies, Industrial Firms and Individuals: Correspondence and Statements

• A

Box 32

• Academy of natural science
• American Farm Bureau Federation
• American Federation of Labor
• American Public Power Association
• American Society of Civil Engineers
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• American Water Works Association
• American Waterways Operators

Box 33

• Arkansas Power and Light Company
• Association of American Railroads
• B
• Brandywine Valley Association
• C
• Chamber of Commerce, U.S.

Box 34

• Congress of Industrial Organizations
• Conservation Foundation
• Council of State Governments
• D
• E
• Edison Electric Institute
• Electrical World
• Engineers Joint Council
• F
• G
• Georgia Power Company
• Greeley and Hansen

Box 35

• H
• I
• Incodel
• International Union for Land Value Taxation and Free Trade
• Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin
• Irving Trust Company
• Izaak Walton League of America, Inc.
• J
• K
• L

Box 36

• M
• Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District
• N
• National Association of Electric Companies
• National Association of Soil Conservation Districts
• National Committee on Policies in Conservation Education
• National Planning Association
• National Reclamation Association
• National Rural Cooperative Association
• National Wildlife Federation
• O

Box 37

• P
• R
• S
• Soil Conservation Society of America
• T
• Taylor, Paul S.
• U
• United Nations
• Upper Colorado River Commission
• Upper Mississippi Waterway Association
• V
• W
• West Texas Chamber of Commerce and West Texas Domestic Water Association
• Wilderness Society
• Y
• Z

• Survey of trade and industry association, conservation groups and societies, industrial firms and individuals: Digest of recommendations, summary memoranda, memo. re Missouri River quantity of water controversy

• Survey of trade and industry associations, conservation groups and societies, industrial firms and individuals: Correspondence re industrial water use: (letters sent to users)

Box 38

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• K
• L
• M
• N
• P
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W

• Survey of Universities: Questionnaire and Replies

Box 39

• Volume I Alabama to Montana

Box 40

• Volume II Nebraska to Wyoming

• Survey of Universities: Digest of Replies

• Legal Data: Correspondence with Federal Government Agencies

Box 41

• Agriculture, Department of
• Army, Department of
• Atomic Energy Commission
• Commerce, Department of
• Federal Power Commission
• General Services Administration
• Housing and Home Finance Agency
• Indian Affairs, Bureau of, Interior
• International Joint Commission
• Interstate Commerce Commission
• Interior, Department of
• International Boundary and Water Commission, U.S. and Mexico
• Justice, Department of
• Labor, Department of
• National Park Service, Interior
• National Security Resources Board
• Navy Department
• Public Health Service
• Public Health Service re pollution control laws
• Reclamation, Bureau of, Interior
• Reconstruction Finance Corporation
• Smithsonian Institute
• Soil Conservation Service
• Soil Conservation Service, Berkeley, Cal. (Wells Hutchins)
• State Department
• Tennessee Valley Authority

• Legal Data: General Subject File

Box 42

• Agency reports, legal
• Anti-monopoly and anti-speculation provisions
• Basic data
• Bibliography
• Bond financing
• Compacts
  • Columbia River Compact
    Pacific Northwest Compact Committee
• Costs, allocation of
• Flood control laws
• Flood control act (message of President)
• Ground water
• Jasper v. King
• Land-use memoranda
• Matched funds
• Memoranda, miscellaneous
• Mining laws
• Reimbursement
• Staff meetings, memoranda re
• State water resources legislation
• State law regulating timber-cutting, constitutionality
• Transportation
  • H. Doc 159 Public aids to domestic transportation
    S. Res. 50 Investigation of land and water transportation

• Legal data: Data re U.S. laws

• Legal Data: Data re State Laws

Box 43

• Alabama
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Montana

Box 44

• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Vermont
• Virginia
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming

• Legal Data: Legal Reports from Federal Government Agencies

Box 45

• Vol. I Army, Department of the
• Vol. II Federal Power Commission
• Vol. III Bureau of Reclamation
  • Reports 1-3
• Vol. IV Bureau of Reclamation
  • Reports 4-8

Box 46

• Vol. V Bonneville Power Administration
  • Southwestern Power Administration
    Southeastern Power Administration
• Vol. VI Bureau of Indian Affairs
  • National Park Service
    U.S. Geological Survey
    Bureau of Land Management
    Fish and Wildlife Service

Box 47

• Vol. VII Department of Agriculture
  • Department of Commerce
    International Boundary Commission
    International Joint Commission
    Public Health Service
• Vol. VIII Tennessee Valley Authority
  • National Security Resources Board
    Atomic Energy Commission
    Reconstruction Finance Corporation
    Interstate Commerce Commission
    General Services Administration

• Committees of the Commission

• General

• Policy Formulation Committee

• Minutes and memoranda

• Committee on Coordination of Planning and Project Selection

Box 48

• Organization, minutes, program, etc.
• Committee report

• Committee on Domestic Water Navigation Projects and National Transportation Policy

• Organization, minutes, program, etc.
• Committee report

• Committee on Evaluation of Constructed Projects

• Organization, minutes, etc.

Box 49

• Data re RFC loans
• Data re projects in
  • Idaho
    Montana
    Nebraska
    Nevada
    New Mexico
    Oklahoma
    Oregon
    South Dakota
    Utah
    Wyoming
    Washington
• Statements re projects submitted by Bureau of Reclamation
• Committee report
• Appendices to Committee Report
  • Volume I

Box 50

• • Volume II

• Committee on Power Policy as Related to Water Resources

• Organization, minutes, etc.
• Correspondence
• Data re typical residential electric bills, cities of 2,500 population, and more submitted by Federal Power Commission

Box 51

• Data re Electrification in Rural America, submitted by REA
• Statements on specific items of policy by committee members
• Selected material relating to committee draft

• Committee on Recreation

• Organization, minutes, etc.
• Correspondence, memoranda, etc.

Box 52

• Report on recreational aspect of civil works water resource developments of the Corps of Engineers
• Preliminary draft of committee report
• Report ont he conservation and development of outdoor recreational resources:
  • Volume I Report
    Volume II Appendices

• Committee on Reimbursement

Box 53

• Organization, minutes, etc.
• Correspondence, memoranda, etc.
• Summary of views of committee on major issues of reimbursement policy
• Reimbursement policy, by Horace M. Gray and Jewell J. Rasmussen

• Committee on River Program Analysis

• Organization, minutes, etc:
  • Volume I
    Volume II

Box 54

• Correspondence:
  • General
    With E.A. Ackerman
    Answers to letters of inquiry
• Outline for investigative procedure
• Data re Missouri Basin
• Maas studies
• Committee report

• Committee on Water Resources Policies involving Land Use Economics

• Organization, minutes, etc.
• Miscellaneous memoranda, etc.
• Population studies, by Joseph S. Davis

Box 53

• Source Book of material to be used in preparing final report
• Draft of report re Agricultural Production and Water Resources, by Commissioners Burgess and Renne
• Committee report on Agricultural Production and Water Resources

• Committee on Standards for Basic Data

• Organization, minutes, etc.
• Subcommittee on
  • Basic Economic Data
    Land Classification including Soil Analysis
    Effects of Land Management upon Runoff, Erosion, and related factors
    Sedimentation
    Hydrology

Box 56

• Miscellaneous memoranda and studies
• Correspondence
• Statements by States
• Committee progress report
• Source Book of Material to be used in preparation of report
• Committee report

• Consultants' Studies

• Etter, K.G.:
  • "Enjoyment of Our Water Resources"
• Fisher, J.L. and W.H. Stead:
  • "Economic and Social Framework for Water Resources Development Policy"
• Mac Kaye, Benton:
  • "Water Policy and Wilderness Policy"
• McKinley, Charles:
  • "Regional Development and Stabilization"

Box 57

• Munns, E.N.:
  • "Public Lands and Water Resource"
• Perloff, H.S.:
  • "The Planning of Water Resources Development"
    "Evaluation of Water Resources Projects"
• Person, Harlow S.:
  • "Conservation of Ground Water"
    "The Nation's Water Resources Problems and Maintenance for Optimum Benefit

• Conference of Economists

• Proposed Conference of Economists

• COMMISSION REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS

• Preparation and Release of Report

• Preparation of Report
  • Staff memoranda; quotations
    Chairman Cooke's correspondence with Commissioners

Box 58

• Presentation and release of report:
  • Chairman Cooke's correspondence with Commissioners
    Presentation to President and release to Press
• Commission News Bulletin

• Mid-year draft of report

• Final Report of Commission

• General:
  • Summary of recommendations
    White House press releases
• Volume I A Water Policy for the American People

Box 59

• Volume II Ten Rivers in America's Future
• Volume III Water Resources Law

Box 60

• Excerpt from Volume II:
  • No.1- The Columbia
    No.2- The Central Valley of California
    No.3- The Missouri
    No.4- The Rio Grande
    No.5- The Colorado
    No.6- The Connecticut
    No.7- The Alabama-Coosa
    No.8- The Potomac
    No.9- The Ohio
    No.10- The Tennessee
• Proposed language for State of the Union message
• Proposed "Water Resources Act of 1951":
  • Attorneys' drafts
    Recommendations of Commission

Box 61

• President's statements on Water Resources
• Correspondence and newsclips re Morris L. Cooke, Chairman of the PWRPC, 1950-51
• Newspaper clippings of the conference held by the President's Water Resources Power Commission
• Press clippings: periodicals and publications
• Press clippings: December 7-17, 1950
• Press clippings: December 18, 1950
• Press clippings: December 19, 1950
• Press clippings: December 20-31, 1950
• Press clippings: January, 1951
• Press clippings: February, 1951

Box 62

• Miscellaneous newspaper clippings re President's Water Resources Power Commission
• Publications: American City (Jan., 1951)- Delaware River Basin Water Project

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