A Report on National Planning and Public Works in Relation to Natural Resources and Including Land Use and Water Resources with Findings and Recommendations: December 1, 1934. Submitted to the President in Accordance with Executive Order No. 6777, June 30, 1934 |
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Page 206 - Act and to insure the objects of such grazing districts, namely, to regulate their occupancy and use, to preserve the land and its resources from destruction or unnecessary injury, to provide for the orderly use, improvement, and development of the range...
Page 272 - Shall formulate a plan to regulate and restrict the location of trades and industries and the location of buildings designed for specific uses...
Page 81 - Coordination within an enterprise is the result of careful planning by experts; coordination among independent enterprises cannot be said to be planned at all; rather is it the unplanned result of natural selection in a struggle for business survival. Coordination within an enterprise has a...
Page 2 - ... raising the standards of living in many agricultural regions. [5] End the wasteful use of our mineral resources and substitute a national policy of mineral conservation. [6] Make available large areas of land for purposes of popular recreation. [7] Assemble basic data in regard to mapping, public finance, and population, necessary for national planning. [8] Avoid the extravagance caused by failure to coordinate public works — federal, state, and local; bring about better programming of socially...
Page 83 - Planning consists in the systematic, continuous, forward-looking application of the best intelligence available to programmes of common affairs in the public field. . . . Planning is a continuous process, and necessitates the constant reexamination of trends, tendencies, policies, in order to adapt and adjust governmental policies with the least possible friction and loss. . . . Planning is not an end, but a means, a means for better use for what we have, a means for emancipation of millions of personalities...
Page 449 - It should be fair to all parties, both producers and consumers, it should be designed to secure and maintain a fair and remunerative price level, it should not aim at discriminating against a particular country, and it should as far as possible be worked with the willing co-operation of consuming interests in importing countries who are equally concerned with producers in the maintenance of regular supplies at fair and stable prices.
Page 262 - Planning for the use and control of water is planning for most of the basic functions of the life of the Nation. We cannot plan for water unless we also consider the relevant problems of the land. We cannot plan for water and land un!
Page 2 - Board which may be expected, if carried thru, to [1] Provide for the systematic development of our water resources for purposes of sanitation, power, industrial uses, transportation, recreation, domestic consumption, and other collateral uses on a far higher level than ever before. [2] Remove the recurring menace of great floods and vast losses to persons and property. [3] Reduce the heavy losses of soil caused by uncontroled erosion.