WSP09897

• File Number: 8407.500
• Description: Platte River Basin - River Basin General Publications - Missouri River
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 12/1/1978
• Author: MRBC
• Title: Missouri River Basin - State and Federal Water and Related Land Resource Program - Fiscal Years 1979-1985 - Volume One - Federal Agency Programs and Summary Tables
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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INTERIOR, DEPARTMENT OF
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
WATER AND RELATED LAND RESOURCE PROGRAMS
IN THE MISSOURI RIVER BASIN

The Water Resources Division investigates the occurrence, quantity, quality,
distribution, and movement of surface and underground waters that comprise the
Nation's water resources. Its activities include the systematic collection,
analysis, and interpretation of data relating to the evaluation of national
water resources and investigation of water demand for industrial, domestic, and
agricultural purposes; research and development to improve the scientific basis
of investigations and techniques; and reporting of the results of these investiga-
tions through publication or other forms of public release.

More specifically, the programs of the Water Resources Division are designed to:
(1) provide the basic hydrologic data needed for solution of increasingly complex
environmental, land use, and water development and management problems and for
aiding in optimum management and use of water and related land resources; (2) develop
methods, instrumentation, and uniform standards for collecting, analyzing, and
disseminating water data; (3) conduct analytical studies and areal investigations
to provide improved knowledge of functioning of hydrologic systems and predictive
models for evaluation of water development and management actions; (4) improve
effectiveness of water resource investigations by carrying out fundamental problem-
oriented research as an integral part of the overall program; and (5) coordinate
acquisition of water data by Federal agencies in response to Office of Management
and Budget Circular A67.

Programs of the Water Resources Division are conducted: (1) in cooperation
with State and local governmental agencies funded on a 50-50 matching basis to
undertake data collection and hydrologic studies of mutual Federal-State concern;
(2) on behalf of other Federal agencies to provide scientific and technical
assistance to those agencies and water data needed to aid in accomplishing their
water development, management, and regulatory missions; and (3) for special water
data collection and regional hydrologic studies related to national issues such
as energy resource development, river basin quality assessment, flooding, subsurface
waste disposal, geothermal resources, water for food and fiber production, and
water-related aspects of nonenergy mineral production.

INTERIOR, DEPARTMENT OF
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
WATER AND RELATED LAND RESOURCE PROGRAMS
IN THE MISSOURI RIVER BASIN

The National Park Service is to promote and regulate the use of national parks,
momuments, and similar reservations in order to "conserve the scenery and the
natural and historic objects and the wildlife herein and to provide for the
enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired
for the enjoyment of future generations." (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S. Code 1)

The Service plans, develops, and administers the natural, historical, and
recreational areas which compose the National Park System. The System includes
the great scenic parks and natural areas containing the finest examples of unspoiled

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