October 2, 1967
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PRESIDENT APPOINTS FRANK GREGG TO NEW ENGLAND RIVER BASIN COMMISSION
Mr. MUSKIE. Mr. President, I wish to invite attention to the President's recent appointment of Frank Gregg to be chairman of the New England River Basin Commission. I am delighted with the President's choice. He could have found no man better qualified to be the first chairman of the New England River Basin Commission than Frank Gregg.
Although Mr. Gregg is not a native New Englander, he has a long and distinguished career in natural resource management. Prior to his appointment he was vice president of the Conservation Foundation. He has also served as executive director of the Citizens Committee for the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission Report, staff assistant on the resources program staff in the office of the Secretary of the Interior, executive director of the Izaak Walton League of America, and editor of the Colorado Outdoors magazine for the Colorado Department of Game and Fish.
In addition to these positions Mr. Gregg has served on a number of committees directly concerned with water resource management and pollution control. These include 2 years as chairman of the Izaak Walton League's clean water committee, membership on the President's Committee on the Quetico-Superior boundary waters area, and membership on the Central States Advisory Board to the U.S. Forest Service. He is at present serving as chairman of the National Technical Committee on Water Quality Criteria for Recreation and Aesthetics established by the Secretary of the Interior.
Mr. President, I commend President Johnson for the wisdom and excellence of his choice of Frank Gregg, and I offer my warm congratulations to Mr. Gregg. I am confident that he will be an outstanding chairman of the New England River Basin Commission.