RESOURCES HEARINGS BEFORE THE MITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEVENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H. R. 7365 AND H. R. 7863 LS TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGIONAL CONSERVATION NATIONAL RESOURCES THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1937 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS, Washington, D. C. he committee met at 10:30 a. m., Hon. Joseph J. Mansfield irman), presiding. he CHAIRMAN. We will begin hearings this morning on H. R. , introduced by me as chairman of the committee, to provide for egional conservation and development of the national resources, for other purposes; and H. R. 7863, introduced by Mr. Rankin, ississippi, to provide for the creation of conservation authorities, for other purposes. 1. R. 7365 reads as follows:) L To provide for the regional conservation and development of the national resources, and for other purposes it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of ica in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the Regional Concion Act of 1937. TITLE I PURPOSE AND POLICY OF THE ACT TION 1. It is the purpose and policy of this Act to develop, integrate, and nate plans, projects, and activities for or incidental to the promotion of ation, the control and prevention of floods, the safeguarding of navigable s, and the reclamation of the public lands, in order to aid and protect comamong the several States, to strengthen the national defense, to conserve ater, soil, mineral, and forest resources of the Nation, to stabilize employand relieve unemployment, and otherwise to protect commerce among the , provide for the national defense, and promote the general welfare of the States. REGIONAL PLANNING AGENCIES 2. To carry out the purposes of this Act, there are hereby created the ng regional planning agencies, which shall be agencies and instrumentalities United States: (1) Atlantic Seaboard Planning Agency, for the drainage in the United States of the rivers flowing into the Atlantic Ocean and of ers flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, from the east, below the basin of the nee River; (2) Great Lakes-Ohio Valley Planning Agency, for the drainage in the United States of the rivers flowing into any of the Great Lakes and Ohio River, except the drainage basins of the Tennessee and Cumberland and of the rivers flowing into the Mississippi River above Cairo, Illinois, he east; (3) Tennessee Valley Planning Agency, for the drainage basins of nnessee and Cumberland Rivers, of the rivers flowing into the Mississippi below Cairo, Illinois, from the east, and of the rivers flowing into the Gulf ico east of the Mississippi River, except the rivers below the basin of the nee River; (4) Missouri Valley Planning Agency, for the drainage basins the United States of the Missouri River and the Red River of the North the rivers flowing into the Mississippi River above Cairo, Illinois, from the |