Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-11

national water policy published on
pages 80 and 371 of H. Doc. l42-77-l.
~ Pollution control and abate-
ment on rivers Of the United States
through passage OF such bill as
provided in S. 685 Seventy Sixth
Congress. third session, with grants
maid, loans or other assistance to
private and public bodies for APP
proved projects.
We recommend:
IL DEVELOPMENT of plans and
agreement before the end of the
war Oh policies for financing land
development projects, to be under
taken after the war, for irrigation.
clearance and drainage projects
in harmony with water and settle
ment policies, range, forest, recre-
alton and wildlife land improve
mentS, including reseeding. reforeS-
tatlon, restocking, transportation
and administra ton facilities.
90 Conservation of land resources
through programs with Federal as
SiStanCe for: Purchase and conser-
Walton or retirement Of submarginal
areas, expansion of soil Conserva-
ton activities. fire control etc.
F. Housing: One of the most i'm
portant outlets for the potential
products OF converted war plants
will be the provision of adequate
housing, both urban and rural. The
Government should plan to initiate
a large public housing program ard
assist in stimulating both private
and public construction activities.
Many of the wartime industries are
already looking toward housing con-
struction as major possibility for
use OF their great new production
capacities. The National Housing
Agency is responsible for the prep
aration of plans and policies to de-
velop wholesome housing for the
American people.
Plan Construction Now.
3. Legislation to provide ready
program Of public construction
The public construction we shall
undertake when the war is over
should be planned now, and ade-
quate authority and funds for such
planning should now be made avail
able by Federal, State, and local
governments. The program to be
planned for should be of such a
character that it will facilitate, and
carefully avoid hindering our post
war industrial conversion to peace
time production, and should be de-
signed, first, to bring our public
facilities plant up to its proper level
of serviceability. and then to devel-
op further the economic possibili-
ties of the Nation.
In order to provide a shelf" or
reservoir" of public construction
projects of tested value, the board
recommends:
A. Continued and invigorated eff
forts to secure the preparation Of
Swear programs or capital budgets
by Federal agencies, State govern
mentS, local governments and other
agencies, public and private.
B. Lists of projects should be pre-
pared and classified according to
size of the project, types and loca-
! lions of skilled and unskilled labor
involved, materials needed, rapidity
of beginning and fleXibility of termi-
nation-all in relation to employ
ment sterilization.
| G. Immediate Inauguration Of sur
veys, Investigations and preparation
of engineering plans and speciflca-
lions for selected projects through
ALLEGATION of aids to Federal and
| non-Federal agencies from a fund
to be administered by the President
through his executive Office, and
reimbursed to the fund as part of
the cost of construction of the prof.
ect-all to permit rapid Inaugural
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