WSP10937

• File Number: 8112.600
• Description: Arkansas White Red Basins Interagency Committee - AWRBIAC -- Reports
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 10/1/1980
• Title: Annual Report 1979 - 1980
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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SPECIAL INTEREST PRESENTATIONS

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Presentations made during fiscal year 1980 that were of special interest are
summarized below:

NATIONAL CLIMATE PROGRAM ACT
(104th Meeting, l6 October 1979)

Dr. Edward S. Epstein, Director of NOAA's National Climate Program Office, gave
a briefing on the National Climate Program Act.

GEOLOGIC DEVELOPMENT AND PREHISTORIC
INHABITANTS OF THE HIGH PLAINS
(104th Meeting, 16 October 1979)

Mr. Larry Banks, Staff Archeologist, Southwestern Division, Corps of Engineers,
discussed the geological development of the High Plains since late Cretaceous
times and centered on the relationship between water resources and the human
environment over the past 25,000 years. The slide lecture included detailed
discussion of prehistoric use in response to environmental change and tyes of
archeological sites occurring as a result of the past 10,000 years of history.
He emphasized the importance of comparing prehistoric evidence with modern usage
of water resources in the High Plains in order to gain more in-depth knowledge
of cultural patterns in relation to available water.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE HIGH PLAINS
OGALLALA AQUIFER STUDY
(l04th Meeting, 16 October 1979)

Mr. Harvey Banks, Project Director, High Plains Associates, Camp, Dresser, and
McKee, Inc., gave a briefing on the High Plains Ogallala Aquifer Study. He was
introduced by Mr. Rought as probably being one of the nation's most knowledge-
able water resources people.

This comprehensive resource and economic development study was authorized by
Congress October 26, 1976, with authorization for a $6 million appropriation.
Responsibility for the study was assigned to the Secretary of Commerce. The
Economic Development Administration (EDA) of the US Department of Commerce is
conducting the study on behalf of the Secretary.

At the insistence of the six states involved--Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska,
New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas--the High Plains Study Council was formed con-
sisting of the Governors of the six states or their designees and three repre-
sentatives of each state appointed by the Governor, and a Federal member from
EDA. The Council is responsible for directing the Study, for preparing final
recommendations and for submittal of the final report to the Secretary of
Commerce. A plan of study adopted by the Council in February 1977 is the basis
for the comprehensive study now in progress which is being coordinated with
other relevant studies and programs by Federal, state, and local agencies.
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