Papers describing the relation of streamflow regulation for quality control to the major Federal water resource development programs (Public Health Service, Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, Soil Conservation Service, and Federal Power Commission), to State and Federal water rights, and to public expectations in water resource development programs, were presented. Other papers considered the effects of impoundments on thermal stratification, biochemical oxidation, photosynthetic oxygen production, and chemical solution and precipitation in reservoirs; the effects of flow regulation on waste assimilation, mineral quality, temperature, and nutrients; hydrologic data needs, statistical studies of storage yield relationships, and establishment of quality objectives for flow regulation projects; measures for improving the quality of reservoir discharges through selection of discharge level, turbine aeration, and reservoir mixing and aeration; and the place of monitoring and cooperative effort in the solution of water quality problems through flow regulation. (Author)