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Show A. ENGINEERING - HYDROLOGY With the concurrence of Federal and State agencies, and with the approval of the Upper Colorado River Commission, the Commission's staff has assumed leadership in initiating and coordinating a comprehensive Type I Framework Study of the water and related land resources of the Upper Colorado Region which embraces the Upper Colorado River Basin. This study is one of four regional studies being made in the Pacific Southwest assigned to the Pacific Southwest Inter-Agency Committee by the Water Resources Council that was created by the Water Resources Planning Act of 1965 (79 Stat. 244). The Commission's staff works in cooperation with representatives of twenty related agencies and of the five Upper Basin States. In organizing for this endeavor a State-Federal Interagency Group has been organized for the Upper Colorado Region with the Upper Colorado River Commission as the lead agency. This Group includes membership from each State and Federal agency. An Upper Colorado Region Staff open to similar representatives under the chairmanship of the Bureau of Reclamation accomplishes the bulk of the office work under the direction of the State-Federal Interagency Group. For an effective division of labor therein, work groups have also been organized with State and Federal representation. These work groups cover various aspects of the over-all Type I Study. Titles of the work groups are: (1) Legal and Institutional Environments, (2) Economic Base and Projections, (3) Water Resources, (4) Land Resources and Use, (5) Mineral Resources, (6) Flood Control, (7) Irrigation and Drainage, (8) Water Quality, Pollution, and Health Factors, (9) Recreation, (10) Fish and wildlife, (11) Electric Power, (12) Public Information, and (13) Framework Plans. The Commission's General Counsel, Mr. Paul L. Billhymer, is chairman of the Legal and Institutional Environments work group. The Commission's Chief Hydraulic Engineer, Mr. Cecil B. Jacobson, heads the Water Resources work group. All of the eighteen Type I Framework Studies being made of various regions of the United States are under the jurisdiction of the Water Resources Council. The Council is directed by Section 101 (a) of the Water Resources Planning Act to "maintain a continuing study and prepare an assessment biannually - of the adequacy of supplies of water necessary to meet the water requirements in each water resource region . . . ." The Upper Colorado Region State-Fed-3ral Interagency Group aided in the preparation of a draft of that portion of the National Assessment of Water and Related Land Re- 23 |