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2~CC Water Council during the year and reported to the Advisory Committee on the Council activity. The Committee focused much of its attention on the proposed Colorado River Basin and Cen- tral Arizona Project legislation. Oral and writ- ten reports by the Chief Engineer and Special Counsei or rhe Buard and by officials of the De- partment of Water Resources kept the Commit- tee informed about the progress and status of the legislation and the problems involved. The Com- mittee took a position consistent with that of the Colorado River Board. At the meeting of the Advisory Committee on January 11; 1967, the following motion was adopted unanimously: RESOLVED, Thar rhe California Advisory Com- mittee on \Vesrern Srares Water Planning recom- mend to rhe Governor and rhe California melll- bers of rhe \Vestern Srares Water Oluncil support of the Resolurion b\' rhe Colorado River Board of California, dared januarv 4, 1967, on Colorado River legislation, as presented to the Committee by Me. Northcurr Elr on rhis dare. At its meeting on March 21, 1967, the Ad- visory Committee unanimously adopted the fol- lowing "Statement of Principles" which it recommended as a guide to California representa- tives in the forthcoming negotiations on the pending Colorado River Basin legislation: "1. The important essence of the program is recognition of shortage of supplies to meet com- mitments of the Colorado River and, therefore, the necessity to include at least the preliminaries of an augmentation project in any project legis- lation. "2. Whether this is to be accomplished through a National Commission or otherwise, or through a provision in the Colorado River Bill, or by a separate \Vater Commission Bill, the end result must be the same, i.e., a study of availa- bility of water to augment the river /low and fonnulation of plans for the ways and means to accomplish such augmentation. "3, \Vith recognition of the inherent short- ages and implementation of the augmentation project it logically follows that there must be protection of existing projects in the interim until the shortage no longer exists." In line with the concentration of effort in late 1967 to reunite the Colorado River Basin states in the matter of water resource development, the Advisory Committee joined with the Colorado 22 River Board, the Attorney General, the Depart- ment of Water Resources and orhers in restating the principles essential to the interests of Cali- fornia in any comprehensive Colorado River Basin legislation. It urged the maintenance of a unified state position, commended the Governor for his leadership, and recommended th~t every effort be made to reach equitable resolution of interstate differences on the Colorado. Type I Comprehensive Framework Studies The Water Resources Council, created by the "Vater Resources Planning Act of 1965, PL 89-80, to carry out the policy of water conserva- tion, development and utilization embodied in the Act, launched in fiscal 1967 a nation-wide study program which will lead to the develop- ment of Comprehensive River Basin Reports re- ferred to as Type I Framework Studies, The continental United States has been divided into 18 major hydrologic regions and a report will be prepared for each region. The srudies will provide long-range projec- tions of economic development, translation of such projections into demands for water and re- lated land resource uses, hydrologic projections of water availability both as to quantity and qual- ity, and the general approaches that appear ap- propriate for solution of water and land use problems. In addition to indicating which re- gions, or subbasins within them, have water problems calling for prompt detailed planning as well as those where no such problems are current or looming, the studies are expected to provide substantial contributions of fact and analysis for subsequent detailed plan formulation. - In enacting the "Vater Resources Planning Act of 1965, Congress recognized that the States have major responsibilities in the water field and in controlling the use of their water within their boundaries. Thus the Act lays great stress upon the idea that state and federal activity in areas of mutual interest in water resources should be undertaken in a cooperative and coordinated manner-a state-federal participation. The Water Resources Council has delegated to the Pacific Southwest Inter-Agency Commit- tee (PSIAC) the leadership and coordination of the comprehensive framework studies in the four regions constituting the Pacific Southwest-Cali- fornia, the Great Basin, and the Upper and Lower Colorado River Regions. PSIAC COffi- 4 .~