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<br />1861 <br /> <br />At the Council's October meeting, the Endangered Species Act <br />and its threat to future growth and energy development in the Colorado <br />River Basin was discussed. The States of Utah and Wyoming brought out <br />the impacts of the Act on their plans to supply water to oil shale <br />developments and to the City of Cheyenne. They proposed Council action <br />at the meeting scheduled for January 1981. <br /> <br />Pacific Southwest Inter- <br />Agency Comm~ttee (PSIAC) <br /> <br />The PSIAC is comprised of representatives from the seven <br />Colorado River Basin states, plus oregon and Idaho, and the federal <br />departments with land, energy, and water responsibilities. <br /> <br />The Board's 1979 Appendix to the Annual Report described plans <br />by the U.S. Forest Service pursuant to the National Resources Planning <br />Act to develop by 1983 plans to optimize the various management ob- <br />jectives for national forests and PSIAC's request for a major study <br />of vegetative management for increased water yield in each of the <br />national forests in the Colorado River Basin. This was followed up <br />in 1980 by the appointment by PSIAC of the Board's Assistant Chief <br />Engineer as chairman of a subcommittee to monitor the vegetative <br />management studies. <br /> <br />The Assistant Chief Engineer met with the staffs of the Inter- <br />Mountain Regional Office of the U.S. Forest Service in Ogden, Utah, <br />and the Rocky Mountain Regional Office in Lakewood, Colorado, to <br />discuss the national forest management plans and, particularly, their <br />work in vegetative management to increase water yield. The relation- <br />ships between the regional plans and the management plans for the <br />individual national forests was discussed and it was agreed that <br />specific watersheds would be identified for vegetative management <br />plans as well as the extent of the treatments and related impacts. <br /> <br />Also during 1980, PSIAC rejected an offer from the United <br />States Water Resources Council of planning funds to do a regional <br />water resources planning study of the southwestern United States. <br /> <br />-16- <br />