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

APPENDIX 4

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CHARTER AND ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURE

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CHARTER FOR AN
ARKANSAS-WHITE-RED BASINS INTER-AGENCY COMMITTEE

I. INTRODUCTION. In accordance with the desires of the federal agencies and
the states concerned, this charter establishes and Arkansas-White-Red Basins
Inter-Agency Committee in consonance with a letter of April 10, 1966, from the
President to the Secretary of the Interior as Chairman, Water Resources Coun-
cil, and a memorandum of April 27, 1966, from the Executive Director, Water
Resources Council, to Field Committees and Subcommittees of the Inter-Agency
Committee on Water Resources.

2. PURPOSE. It i~ the purpose of this agreement to provide in the Arkansas-
White-Red River Basins facilities and procedures for the coordination of the
policies, programs, and activities of the Federal agencies and states in the
field of water and related land resources investigation, planning, construc-
tion, operation and maintenance; provide means by which conflicts may be
resolved; and to provide procedures for coordination of their interests with
those of other federal, local governmental, and private agencies in the water
and related land resources field.

3. ESTABLISHMENT.

a. For this purpose there is established an Arkansas-White-Red Basins
Inter-Agency Committee. The Committee shall be composed of representatives of
each of the following federal agencies and states which elect to participate:
the Departments of Agriculture; Army; Commerce; Housing and Urban Development;
Interior: Transportation; the Environmental Protection Agency; and the Depart-
ment of Energy1; and the States of Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas,
Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.

b. The federal members of the Committee shall be designated by the head
of the federal agency they are to represent and shall preferably be resident
in the area.

c. The governor of each state desiring to participate shall designate the
member of the Committee for his state.

d. Committee members may designate other officials to serve as alternates.

e. Federal agencies will participate in the work of the Committee in
accordance with their respective responsibilities and interests, and with the
intent of the Water Resources Planning Act, Public Law 89-80.

f. When appropriate, other federal, state, public, and private agencies
will be asked to participate in Committee meetings and to appoint representa-
tives to specific subcommittees in order that the work of the Committee may be
coordinated with the related work of all agencies.

1Revised to reflect current agency name. Formerly Federal Power Commission.

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