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division of a State, accept and utilize the services and facilities of the agencies of such State or subdivision without reimbursement;

(6) accept in the name of the Council, and employ or dispose of in furtherance of the purposes of this Act,

any money or property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, received by gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise;

(7) accept voluntary and uncompensated services, notwithstanding the provisions of section 3679 (b) of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 665 (b));

(8) allocate and expend, or transfer to other Federal agencies for expenditure, funds made available under this Act as he deems necessary to carry out the

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visions of section 4774 (d) of title 10, United States Code) expenditures for construction, repairs, and capital improvements;

(9) disseminate, without regard to the provisions of section 321n of title 39, United States Code, data

and information, in such form as he shall deem appro

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(10) establish such policies, standards, criteria,

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enter into such contracts and agreements with public agencies and private organizations and persons, make such payments (in lump sum or installments, and in advance or by way of reimbursement, and in the case of grants, with necessary adjustments on account of overpayments or underpayments), and generally perform such activities and take such steps as he may deem to be necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of this Act.

(b) To the maximum extent feasible, the Chairman 11 shall administer programs developed pursuant to this Act 12 through existing Federal agencies and utilize personnel 13 within such agencies.

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NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL

15 SEC. 8. (a) There is hereby established a National 16 Advisory Council on the Human and Resource Conservation 17 Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Advisory Council"). 18 The Advisory Council shall be composed of the Chairman 19 or his designee, who shall also be Chairman of the Advisory 20 Council, and not more than fourteen additional members 21 appointed by the Chairman without regard to the civil 22 service laws. The appointed members of the Advisory Coun23 cil shall be persons (including persons from public and vol24 untary organizations) representing the fields of conservation, 25 agriculture, education, training, youth employment, labor,

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SEC. 9. There is authorized to be appropriated for the

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Senator CLARK. I see that Senator Nelson has joined us. Therefore, Mayor, I will ask you, if you don't mind, to allow Senator Nelson, sponsor of this bill, to lead off.

I will ask you, Senator Nelson, if you will proceed in your own way. We have already put in the record S. 2958, your bill. We are very happy to welcome you here in support of it.

STATEMENT OF HON. GAYLORD NELSON, A U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF WISCONSIN

Senator NELSON. Mr. Chairman, I have with me Mr. Schumacher who is a member of the conservation commission of the State of Wisconsin.

Senator CLARK. I will be very happy to have him join you at the witness table.

Senator NELSON. At the appropriate time, Mr. Schumacher would like to present a statement in behalf of the Wisconsin Conservation Department concerning the proposal in this bill.

I have a statement here, Mr. Chairman, only part of which I will read. I ask your permission to introduce the entire statement into the record at the appropriate time.

Senator CLARK. The entire statement will be printed in the record at this point. Then, Senator, if you will just emphasize such points as you would like to refer to orally.

(The prepared statement of Senator Nelson follows:)

PREPARED STATEMENT OF SENATOR GAYLORD NELSON

Today America faces twin crises: through sheer failure to act we are wasting irreplaceable natural resources at an ever-increasing rate; at the same time there are millions of men who want to work but who cannot find jobs who are wasting their lives in poverty.

I propose we face both crises boldly and that we begin a substantial program to put men to work to conserve our natural resources. Such a program will, at the same time, conserve the human resources of the Nation.

American must begin at once to make a massive investment at the local, State, and National level to save our natural resources from destruction. If we fail to act in the few years we have left, we could destroy not only the resources which provide much of the beauty and recreation in our life but our most important, lifegiving resources as well-the water we drink and the air we breathe.

Much of our priceless heritage is already lost. The 200 billion board feet of pine in northern Wisconsin, which could have made this area rich forever, is gone, and heartbreak and financial problems have lingered ever since. A substantial percentage of the rivers of the East are also hopelessly polluted, and the dull gray tide of pollution is slowly spreading over the surface waters of America.

The coastlines of America, the greatest recreational and scenic resource that America has, have been largely ruined by the most vulgar types of commercial exploitation or walled off on private ownership that allows public access to only 2 percent of the coastlines. Much of the true wilderness-our last real link with the world which God created-has been destroyed.

Many of our most beautiful highways have become ugly slums of garish signs and shoddy development.

These resources-gone and never to be replaced-were lost because our optimistic young country believed in what Secretary of the Interior Udall has called "the myth of superabundance." It shocked America to learn that it could run out of timber and land and minerals and scenic vistas and a lot of other things.

Today we fact a genuine crisis. To retreat any further threatens America with the kind of resource destruction which turned a green forest into the Sahara Desert, and which made it virtually impossible for China and India to sustain the lives of all their citizens.

Look at some of the chilling facts:

First. Our population is expected to double by the year 2000—which is only 36 years away.

Second. We are presently using water at the rate of 355 billion gallons a day, and encountering serious water shortages in many parts of the Nation. By 1980, experts tell us we will need 600 billion gallons a day-almost twice our present water supply in a scant 17 years. And by the year 2000 we will need almost 900 billion gallons. Meanwhile, the relentless spread of pollution makes more and more water unsuitable for use each day.

Third. Automobiles are creating a nationwide traffic jam which is blighting the landscape of America and chewing up much of the valuable land-land which can never again be used for farms or forests or parks or homesites. The American Automobile Association estimates that our present 68 million passenger cars will increase to 95 million by 1976.

Fourth. The increase in population, in the number of cars, and in leisure time is causing a geometric increase in demand on all parks and recreational space. Yet we are making no comparable increase in the amount of space available. Fifth. Resources for the Future, an outstanding research organization, estimates that there will be 10 times the demand for outdoor recreation in the year 2000 that there was in 1950. The bipartisan report of the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission estimates that, at the very least, the overall demand for outdoor recreation will treble.

Sixth. Marion Clawson, the expert who made the study for Resources for the Future, estimates that the present 750,000 acres of city and county parks should be doubled right now, just to meet present demand. By the year 2000, we will need 5 million acres, Clawson estimates. The greatest demand of all-for a major increase in national parklands-simply cannot be met because there is no longer that much additional outstanding land available. The result will simply be more overcrowding-and the more unique, the more desirable an area it is, the more it will be crowded and overused.

The conservation crisis can be briefly summarized: our natural heritage of water, timber, and outdoor recreation space is disappearing. It is disappearing at the Federal, State, municipal, county, and private level.

Even as we begin to realize the dimensions of this crisis at all levels of endeavor, we are becoming more and more aware of the crisis of poverty in America. The President has shown that at least a fifth of our Nation lives in unacceptable conditions:

First. During 1962 there were 9.3 million families-or 35 million individualswith family incomes of less than $3,000.

Second. Three million six hundred thousand of these families were headed by individuals who did not work at any time during the year.

Third. Of the remaining 5.7 million families, the heads of 1.5 million worked at part-time jobs only and 1.8 million worked at full-time jobs for less than 50 weeks.