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9887 1 (1935)

handle is hein.usccsset/usconset24010 and id is 1 raw text is: 74TH CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT 1st Session I No. 528 TO PROVIDE FOR PROTECTION OF LAND RESOURCES AGAINST SOIL EROSION, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES MARCH 29, 1935.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. JONES, from the Committee on Agriculture, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 70541 The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 7054) to provide for the protection of land resources against soil erosion, and for other purposes, having considered the same, and hearings having been held by the Committee on Public Lands and the Committee on Agriculture, report thereon with a recommendation- that it do pass with the following amendments: Page 3, line 12, strike out the word and and the diagonal bar /. Page 3, line 13, strike out the diagonal bar / and the word or. Page 5, line 2, strike out the word which. Page 5, line 3, after the word and and preceding the word sball insert the words the Secretary of Agriculture. EXPLANATION OF THE BILL The preamble, section 1, sets forth the objectives of the bill, out- lines the basis for a Federal policy of erosion control, and provides that the Secretary of Agriculture shall direct and coordinate all Federal activities with relation to soil erosion. Unless soil erosion can be controlled on farm, grazing, and forest lands, the prosperity of the United States cannot be permanently maintained. Control. of erosion is essential to prevent the wastage of soil, conserve water, control floods, prevent the silting of reservoirs, maintain the naviga- bility of rivers and harbors, protect public lands, and to keep front Federal relief rolls the populations of regions threatened with abandon- ment. These aspects of the problem justify Federal responsibility for the carrying out a national erosion control program. Subsection (1) of section I authorizes such surveys, investigations, and research as may be necessary for the purposes of the act, publica- tion of the results thereof, the dissemination of information concern-

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