Show Moss Bill Calls for Single Dept of Natural Resources I I All federal natural resource functions should be realigned in- in inI into to a single department Sen Frank E Moss proposed recent recent- recently ly Iy in a Senate speech Competing interests ts for the use of limited resources have blocked any overall develop develop- development ment and protection plan Sen Moss said Every resource management agency is surrounded ded by competing agencies ts t's each striving to utilize our waters minerals and land for its own particular clientele The result has been that we often have no policy at all when lm im decisions affecting our natural resources are made j SEN MOSS submitted to the Senate a bill which would elim mate time the present Department of the Interior and in its place establish the new Department of Natural Resources Many Interior Department agencies and bureaus would form the core of the new The Army Corps of Engin- Engin Engineers Engineers would be transferred to the new department along with the U Sr S Forest Service and the Soil Conservation Service Oceanography work of five sop sep separate orate arate clep departments three inde inde- independent pendent agencies and bur 22 cans and and offices would also he be placed in the new department I The J Io Moss s bill provides for a secretary of Natural Resources and a deputy secretary It also 1 calls for two undersecretaries one for water and the theother other for land Various as assis- assis assistant is- is ista lother ta tant nt secretaries for specific re re- re resource source duties are also provided I I by Sen Moss loss hill bill |