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093532 1 (1974-05-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacxfd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL AccoUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D C. 20548 093s3 RESOURCES AND ECONOMIC MAY 2 1974 DEVELOPMENT DIVISION Mr. Warren Fairchild Director, Water Resources Council Dear Mr. Fairchild: We have completed our review of the coordination between the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture in planning for irriga- tion projects. In a draft of a proposed report to the Congress, we suggested that the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture have their respective agencies jointly establish (1) uniform poliies and pro- cedures for determining irrigation benefits in planning for multi- purpose water resource projects, and (2) a coordination process for comprehensive planning of irrigation projects. Also, we suggested that the Water Resource Council encourage and assist the Departments in establishing a coordination process and review the jointly estab- lished policies and procedures for making irrigation benefit determina- tions for conformance with the Council's Principles and Standards for Planning Water and Related Land Resources. Your comments on the draft of our proposed report expressed general agreement with our suggestions and pointed out that compliance with the Principles and Standards will achieve the suggested coordination. Also, you stated that it was incumbent upon the agencies to provide the Council with their implementing procedures for review for consistency with the established Principles and Standards and that when all agency procedures are available, comparisons for consistency would be made. Further, you stated that both Agriculture and Interior have agreed as to the concep- tual basis for determining certain irrigation benefits and that minor procedural differences can be adjusted if they are not in conflict with the Principles and Standards. We believe that the actions being taken by the Departments and the Council should bring about improvements in the coordination process and in achieving uriformity in computing irrigation benefits. -Further, our BEST DOCUMENT AVA\LABLE

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