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<br />0028fV~ <br /> <br />~f.~ <br />I:';>.'';'~.-~;~ <br />~'*"'i=.- <br />~.~".,. <br />1 ~l%f;;~1 <br />1;+"'" <br /> <br />I~$.~~ <br />l.:,...,.~~ <br />l~ft~t <br />I <br /> <br />f;~,(,; <br />~,._.. .~~ <br /> <br /> <br />I <br />iI <br /> <br />Wta: <br /> <br />Review of OBERS Program <br /> <br />The report under consideration notes that the OBERS program <br /> <br />was initiated in 1964 by the members of the former ad hoc Water <br /> <br />Resources Council and was adopted as an integral part of the <br /> <br />comprehensive water resources planning program after the Council <br /> <br />was established by the Water Resources Planning Act of 1965. Coun.cil <br /> <br />agen.cies jointly provided the funding for the project through 1970. <br /> <br />Sin.ce then., funding has been through the Departmen.ts of Agriculture <br /> <br />an.d Commerce. <br /> <br />The OBERS program was a natural outgrowth of the services. <br /> <br />developed by the Office of Business Economics (OBE) in. the Department <br /> <br />of Commerce an.d the Econ.omic Research Service (ERS) in the Departmen.t <br /> <br />of Agriculture. From the experience of these two agencies as well as <br /> <br />that of the numerous other organizations that prepared economic base <br /> <br />studies for the water resources agencies during the 1950' s .and early <br /> <br />1960' s, it became obvious that a consistent, integrated, centralized <br /> <br /> <br />system of regional economic measures, both historical and projected, <br /> <br />~'f: <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />;.:.::':?';.} <br />.... ..-,:: <br />------.' <br /> <br />was desirable. Such a system became a necessity at the time the <br /> <br />series of framework studies was authorized, and a requirement <br /> <br />established for a periodic national assessment of water supplies and <br /> <br />needs. <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br />.;;",_.- <br />:::-;;:~':-.':.~~ <br />~ -' '. .':' <br />...:.<_....~_. ',' <br /> <br />~~-::::.~.~-;> <br />;:~:}~~,::.;;..~ <br />;<:::';:"'-,,,:' <br /> <br />..-...... '-~ <br />;:_+;:;::~; <br /> <br />~IW;~&~2~~1~~~f~~I~lgli~~~~~~~~S~1~;1~1!~1~~!1~g~t~i'~~?:;!~$~~f~,~~\~:~1{~il~i!'~f~t~fl~r!i~l~ltJ~?:;~;~l~)i~!r"~0~ <br />