WSP08995

• File Number: 8410.350
• Description: Basin Multistate Organizations - Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 6/27/1968
• Author: MBIAC
• Title: Comprehensive Framework Study - Fourth Annual Report by Standing Committee to MBIAC
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Missouri River Basin
Comprehensive Framework Studies

Needs and Problems*

As has been brought out before, the Comprehensive Framework Study
will be based on future needs. The determination of future needs s.nd
problems was assigned to an Inter-Agency Work Group to determine. To
speculate on future needs, it is necessary to estimate them based on
economic projections and various unit factors to water and land usage.
In addition, it was decided early that we would not concern outselves
with whether the needs were practical on the basis of availability of
water or land, but that this would be handled in the Resource Developnent
Work Group. FUrther, it was the basic prem1se of the frsmework studies
that we should not attempt economic evaluations which would be left for
future detail studies. Therefore, the determination of needs carries
little indication of value or relative values between functions or, for
that matter, little guidance on values for different degrees in the same
function..

The work for determination of needs was undertaken on a functional
basis, and seven Inter-Agency Task Forces were formed to deal with sepa-
rate functional uses of water and land. TIlese were: Agriculture, Muni-
cipal and Industrial Water Supply, Electric Power, Flood Control, Navi-
gation, Recrea,tion, and Fish and Wildlife.

Agriculture - Agriculture occupies an important position, economi-
cally, both .nationally and basinwide. In 1964 about 5.1 billion dollars
worth of farm produCts were marketed in the Missouri Basin. This is about
15 percent of the Nation's total. Agriculture can be expected to continue
as an important segment of the economy of the Basin. . The projections for
.the Missouri Basin were part of the disaggregated national demands for food
and fiber. These Were prepared by the Economic Research Service for the
Nation as a whole based on economic projections and many other factors, and
were disaggregated to the Basin. The amount assigned to the Missouri Basin
by this procedure is illustrated by the following two graphs vh1ch show the
projected requirements for meat and for grains for the Missouri Basin. These
amount to nearly three times current production. In order to estimate the
capability of the Basin to meet these estimated requirements. the Agricul-
tural Task Force established a rather sophisticated and large model for
computations of future production using an electronic computer.

* Presentation by C. T. Judah, U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, Chairman of
Work Group on Needs and Problems

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