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Oklahoma" of the White House Records Office: Legislation Case Files at the Gerald R.
Ford Presidential Library.
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APPROVED AUG 9- 1975
ACTION
THE WHITE HOUSE
Last Day: August 14
WASHINGTON
August 8, 1975
Posted (Vail, col)
MEMORANDUM FOR
THE PRESIDENT
8/11
FROM:
JIM CANNON
J. archinos
SUBJECT:
S. 1531 - Tom Steed Reservoir, Oklahoma
5/12
Attached for your consideration is S. 1531, sponsored by
Senator Bellmon, which redesignates the Mountain Park
Reservoir, Oklahoma as the Tom Steed Reservoir. The
facility, which is already referred to by local residents
as the Tom Steed Reservoir will be dedicated on August 23,
1975.
OMB, Interior, Max Friedersdorf, Counsel's Office (Lazarus)
and I recommend approval of the enrolled bill.
RECOMMENDATION
That you sign S. 1531 at Tab A.
FORD
gill
APPROVED AUG 9- OF The The PRESIDENT STATES UNITED
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503
AUG 7 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject: Enrolled Bill S. 1531 - Tom Steed Reservoir, Oklahoma
Sponsor - Sen. Bellmon (R) Oklahoma
Last Day for Action
August 14, 1975 - Thursday
Purpose
Redesignates the Mountain Park Reservoir, Oklahoma, as the
Tom Steed Reservoir.
Agency Recommendations
Office of Management and Budget
Approval
Department of the Interior
No objection
Department of the Army
Defers to Interior (Informally)
Discussion
The Mountain Park Dam and Reservoir in southwestern Oklahoma
was built by the Bureau of Reclamation under a 1968 act to
control floods and provide water to the cities of Altus and
Snyder. Located in Congressman Steed's district, the project
will be dedicated on August 23, 1975.
Representative Johnson of California stated during discussion
of the bill on the House floor that the measure had been
suggested by the project's beneficiaries and that, in fact,
the facility is already referred to by local residents as
the Tom Steed Reservoir.
ARD
LIBRARY
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Congressman Steed has served twelve terms in the House of
Representatives. He is Chairman of the Treasury, Postal
Service, General Government Subcommittee of the House
Appropriations Committee and a leading member of the Small
Business Committee. It was brought out on the House floor
that he had also been an active supporter of water resources
legislation of benefit to Oklahoma and the entire nation.
James m. Trey
Assistant Director for
Legislative Reference
Enclosures
OF THE
United States Department of the Interior
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
March
3,
1849
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20240
AUG - 6 1975
Dear Mr. Lynn:
This responds to your request for our views of on enrolled bill,
S. 1531, "To designate the Mountain Park Reservoir, Oklahoma, as
the Tom Steed Reservoir."
We have reviewed the bill and have no objection to the President
signing the bill.
S. 1531 would re-name the Mountain Park Reservoir, Oklahoma
(authorized by the Act of September 21, 1968, 82 Stat. 853) to
be known hereafter as the Tom Steed Reservoir.
We are advised by Interior Department personnel in Oklahoma that
there is local support for the measure.
The Department would prefer to have the Mountain Park Dam and
Reservoir both re-named in honor of Mr. Steed, (the bill names
only the Reservoir) in order to avoid the likelihood of confusion
arising from having two names for the same basic facility,
i.e. Mountain Park Dam and Tom Steed Reservoir. We would have
so recommended had we been asked to comment on the bill prior to
its being passed. It may be possible to solve this problem
administratively, however.
The Department has had a policy for some time that it would not
generally favor naming public facilities for living persons; this
has not been absolute however, and in view of the fact that the
Congress has considered the matter favorably and giving further
consideration to the local support for the measure and to the
extensive service of Mr. Steed, we see no reason not to approve
this measure.
Assistant
Roystan Secretary Sincerely yours, of the Hughes
Honorable James T. Lynn
Director
Office of Management and Budget
Washington, D.C. 20503
CONSERVE
AMERICA'S
ENERGY
Save Energy and You Serve America!
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
E
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503
AUG 7 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject: Enrolled Bill S. 1531 - Tom Steed Reservoir, Oklahoma
Sponsor - Sen. Bellmon (R) Oklahoma
Last Day for Action
August 14, 1975 - Thursday
Purpose
Redesignates the Mountain Park Reservoir, Oklahoma, as the
Tom Steed Reservoir.
Agency Recommendations
Office of Management and Budget
Approval
Department of the Interior
No objection
Department of the Army
Defers to Interior (Informally
Discussion
The Mountain Park Dam and Reservoir in southwestern Oklahoma
was built by the Bureau of Reclamation under a 1968 act to
control floods and provide water to the cities of Altus and
Snyder. Located in Congressman Steed's district, the project
will be dedicated on August 23, 1975.
Representative Johnson of California stated during discussion
of the bill on the House floor that the measure had been
suggested by the project's beneficiaries and that, in fact,
the facility is already referred to by local residents as
the Tom Steed Reservoir.
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Congressman Steed has served twelve terms in the House of
Representatives. He is Chairman of the Treasury, Postal
Service, General Government Subcommittee of the House
Appropriations Committee and a leading member of the Small
Business Committee. It was brought out on the House floor
that he had also been an active supporter of water resources
legislation of benefit to Oklahoma and the entire nation.
(Signed) James M. Frey
Assistant Director for
Legislative Reference
Enclosures
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
ROUTE SLIP
DATE 8/12/75
TO: ROBERT LINDER- White House
FROM: FREY
REMARKS: For the fite on
enrolled bill 5.1531
OMB FORM 38
REV SEPT 70
OF ENSE
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20310
OFFICE
7 AUG 1975
Honorable James T. Lynn
Director, Office of Management and Budget
Dear Mr. Lynn:
This is in reply to your request for the views of the Department of
the Army on enrolled enactment S. 1531, 94th Congress, "To designate
the Mountain Park Reservoir, Oklahoma, as the Tom Steed Reservoir."
The Department of the Army has no objection to the approval of the
enrolled enactment but defers to the views of the Department of the
Interior which has jurisdiction over the Mountain Park Reservoir.
The purpose of the Act is stated in its title.
The Mountain Park Reservoir, Oklahoma Bureau of Reclamation project
is a multiple purpose entity authorized by the Act of September 21,
1968 (82 Stat. 853) which provides flood control, water supply, fish
and wildlife management and recreational facilities. The project is
under construction and is located on Otter Creek, a tributary of the
North Fork of Red River approximately six miles north of Snyder, Oklahoma.
Congressman Tom Steed for whom the reservoir would be named has represented
the Fourth Congressional District of Oklahoma since 1948. He serves as
a member of the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Small
Business.
Sincerely,
Martin R. Hoffmann
Secretary of the Army
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AMERICANA REVOLUTION WEENTENNING
MEDELAND
1776-1976
THE WHITE HOUSE
ACTION MEMORANDUM
WASHINGTON
LOG NO.:
Date: August 8
Time:
445pm
FOR ACTION: Tod Hullin
cc (for information): Jim Cavanaugh
Max Friedersdorf
Jack Marsh
Ken Lazarus
FROM THE STAFF SECRETARY
DUE: Date: August 9
Time: 1100am
SUBJECT:
S. 1531 - Tom Steed Reservoir
ACTION REQUESTED:
For Necessary Action
For Your Recommendations
Prepare Agenda and Brief
Draft Reply
X For Your Comments
Draft Remarks
REMARKS:
Please return to Judy Johnston, Ground Floor West Wing
PLEASE ATTACH THIS COPY TO MATERIAL SUBMITTED.
If you have any questions or if you anticipate a
delay in submitting the required material, please
K. R. COLE, JR.
telephone the Staff Secretary immediately.
For the President
THE WHITE NOUSI
ACTION MENORANDUM
WASHINGTON
LOG TO.:
Date: August 8
Time:
445pm
FOR ACTION: Tod Hullin
CC (for information): Jim Cavanaugh
Max Friedersdorf
Jack Marsh
Ken Lazarus
IROM THE STAFF SECRETARY
DUE: Date: August 9
Time: 1100am
SUBJECT:
S. 1531 - Tom Steed Reservoir
ACTION REQUESTED:
For Necessary Action
For Your Recommendations
Prepare Agenda and Brief
Draft Reply
X
For Your Comments
Draft Remarks
REMARKS:
Please return to Judy Johnston, Ground Floor West Wing
No objection
Ken Lazarus
PLEASE ATTACH THIS COPY TO MATERIAL SUBMITTED.
II you have any questions or if you anticipate CL
dolay in subtaitting the required material, please
K. R. COLE, JR.
infepirano the Staff Secretary immediately.
For the President
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 12, 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR:
JIM CAVANAUGH
FROM:
MAX L. FRIEDERSDORF
SUBJECT:
S.1531 - Tom Steed Reservoir
The Office of Legislative Affairs concurs with the agencies
that the
subject bill be signed.
Attachments
Calendar No. 340
94TH CONGRESS
}
SENATE
REPORT
1st Session
No. 94-351
DESIGNATING THE MOUNTAIN PARK, RESERVOIR,
OKLAHOMA, AS THE TOM STEED RESERVOIR
JULY 31, 1975.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. CHURCH, from the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1531]
The Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, to which was re-
ferred the bill (S. 1531) to designate the Mountain Park Reservoir,
Oklahoma, as the Tom Steed Reservoir, having considered the same,
reports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that
the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of S. 1531 is to rename the Mountain Park Reservoir
on Otter Creek in Oklahoma as the Tom Steed Reservoir.
BACKGROUND
Mountain Park Reservoir is a feature of the Mountain Park recla-
mation project in Jackson and Kiowa Counties in southwestern Okla-
homa. Construction of the Mountain Park project was authorized by
the Act of September 21, 1968. Project purposes include provision of
a municipal and industrial water supply for the cities of Altus,
Snyder, and Frederick, and the Altus Air Force Base, and recreation
and fish and wildlife conservation. Project features include the Moun-
tain Park Dam and Reservoir on Otter Creek, and a diversion dam
on Elk Creek with a feeder canal to the reservoir.
NEED FOR THE LEGISLATION
The renaming of the reservoir is highly desired by the citizens resid-
ing in the vicinity and the reservoir, in fact, is locally referred to as
"Tom Steed Reservoir."
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S. 1531 was introduced by Senator Henry Bellmon of Oklahoma
and is cosponsored by Senator Dewey Bartlett.
Because the reservoir is referred to by name in the legislative history
of the authorizing legislation, it is appropriate that the designation
be changed by an act of Congress.
COST
Enactment of S. 1531 will result in no additional expenditure of
Federal funds.
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION
The Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs in open executive
session on July 31, 1975, with a quorum present, unanimously ordered
S. 1531 favorably reported to the Senate.
S.R. 351
S. 1531
Ainety-fourth Congress of the United States of America
AT THE FIRST SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the fourteenth day of January,
one thousand nine hundred and seventy-five
An Art
To designate the Mountain Park Reservoir, Oklahoma, as the Tom Steed
Reservoir.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Mountain
Park Reservoir, Oklahoma, authorized to be constructed by the Act
of September 21, 1968 (82 Stat. 853), shall be known and designated
hereafter as the Tom Steed Reservoir. Any law, regulation, map, docu-
ment, record, or other paper of the United States in which such
reservoir is referred shall be held to refer to such reservoir as the
Tom Steed Reservoir.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
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August 2, 1975
Dear Mr. Director:
The following bills were received at the White
House on August 2nd:
H.R. 83
H.R. 7716
H.R. 1553
H.R. 9091
H.R. 4241
S. 409
H.R. 4723
S. 1531
H.R. 5405
S. 1716
H.R. 7710
S. 2073
Please let the President have reports and
recommendations as to the approval of these bills
as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Robert D. Linder
Chief Executive Clerk
The Honorable James T. Lynn
Director
Office of Management and Budget
Washington, D. C.