Appendices to Pacific Water Plan Review Draft

Document: Appendices to Pacific Southwest Water Plan Review Draft "Bureau of Outdoor Recreation", August 1963, page 9present and future generations, in the Phoenix-Tucson urban complex. 2. Estimates being developed at this time on recreation benefits and on cost allocations to recreation are, of necessity, tentative. The growing importance given to recreation as a project purpose of Federally-constructed reservoirs makes it necessary to make thorough appraisals of the extent to which reservoirs can help to meet the need for water-oriented recreation, monetary measurement of the benefits derived from meeting such needs, and the extent of justifiable Federal investment in recreation as a project purpose. These aspects of the project reservoirs, and the relationship between Federal and other responsibilities for paying the costs of recreation, require thorough review in the light of Senate Document 97 of the 87th Congress and the inter-Departmental policies being developed to implement that document. 3. If the reservoirs included within the proposed project are authorized as presently planned, important intangible conservation and recreation values would be adversely affected. Therefore, the Secretary of the Interior should be authorized to take all appropriate steps to minimize damage to the scenic qualities of the reservoir areas. 4. An analysis is needed of the recreation potentials of the Bridge Canyon and Marble Canyon projects to determine whether they are of national or less than national significance, so that responsi- 9Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 2,663,681 byte