Considers. S. 2246, the Water Resources Planning Act of 1961, to establish a Federal Water Resources Council to provide grants and guidelines for river basin development programs and to establish regional river basin commissions to coordinate Federal-state and Federal-local water resource development. S. 1629, the Water Resources Planning Act of 1961, to provide Federal aid to states for water resource development planning. S. 1778, the Public Works Planning Act of 1961, to establish a Federal Water Resources Planning Board to review, approve, and allocate funds for state water resource development proposals.

Considers S. 21, to establish a Federal cabinet level Water Resources Council and a joint Federal-state River Basin Commissions to coordinate interstate and intrastate federally funded projects.

"Hearings before the Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, second session, on S. 1111 and H. R. 3620, bills to provide for the optimum development of the Nation's natural resources through the coordinated planning of water and related land resources, through the establishment of a Water Resources Council and river basin commissions, and by providing financial assistance to the States in order to increase State participation in such planning."--T.p.

Considers S. 21, to establish a Federal cabinet level Water Resources Council and a joint Federal-state River Basin Commissions to coordinate interstate and intrastate federally funded projects.