Water Resources People and Issues
You were the coordinator or liaison specifically between the Board of
Reclamation-not the Department of the Interior,
A: I was working for the Bureau of Reclamation and so this section was part of the
Bureau, but at that time, the Bureau had all of these functions for the whole
department because Michael Strauss more or less inherited them-the original
tripartite agreement, which was the basis for the
was signed by John
Page for the Bureau of Reclamation, and somebody, probably Specs Wheeler,
as the Chief of Engineers, and somebody from the Department of Agriculture,
probably Ernie
.
That was in `39, you're talking about, the tripartite agreement.
A: That's right.
For the Corps-that would have been Julian Schley, I guess, was Chief of
Well, whoever it was, and the Department of Agriculture. And then, of course,
when we brought in the
[Federal Power Commission], they called it for
a few months, I guess, the cluadripartite agreement.
Yeah.
A: And then eventually it
Of course, they organized
partly, as I recollect, in response to the
congressional
A: To abandon the NRPB.
Yeah, and also to not fund the Bureau of the Budget's little
A: That's right.
That was
The first thing they did was they terminated
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