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that will help preserve the contribution that farms make to the
life and landscape of the Basin. Imaginative new approaches are
mandatory if there is to be any hope of coping with this problem.

H. At all levels of government also, a concerted effort must be made to
clean up junk, spoil, and debris inherited from misuses of the past and
to prevent new accumulations. Over 10,000 acres of surface-mined lands
need reclamation, thousands of junked cars mar the landscape, and trash
and litter clutter the land and streams. Existing programs must be
accelerated and new ones devised. Legislation now before the Congress
would establish a cooperative Federal-State program to regulate surface
mining operations and to assure the reclamation of areas mined in the
future. In addition, it is imperative that Basin Federal and State
installations promulgate regulations to prevent accumulations of junk
and debris on their lands.

III. To help ensure that future planning and action in relation to the
Potomac Basin's water resources, water-related land resources, and
amenities shall proceed in a wise and coordinated manner, we recommend:

A. That citizens of the Basin interested in its overall well-being
give serious thought of joining together in a broad-based
organization to promote all aspects of that well-being by public
education, discussion, monitoring abuses, pressing for good local
planning and land use, and reviewing proposals for environmental
action in the Basin.

B. That the Federal and State governments continue their efforts to
define and establish appropriate institutional arrangements for the
management and operation of this Potomac Basin program and the
furtherance of its principles of protection, preservation, good
water management and flexibility. The Potomac River Basin Compact,
as proposed in draft form by the Potomac River Basin Advisory
Committee, is receiving careful consideration by Federal agencies
and citizens, anticipating consideration by State legislative
bodies, and the Congress of the United States.

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