WSP11319

• File Number: 8112.600
• Description: Arkansas White Red Basins Interagency Committee - AWRBIAC -- Reports
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 1/1/1984
• Title: Annual Report 1982-1983
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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CHAPTER I

AWRBIAC FUNCTIONS AND ORGANIZATION

The Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committeel/ waS established
by the Inter-Agency Committee on Water Resources (ICWR) in September 1955
to assist in the coordination of the water and related land resources
activities of the States and Federal agencies in the three river basins.
The objectives of the Committee as stated in its Charter issued by ICWR
are "to provide in the Arkansas, White, and Red River Basins improved
facilites and procedures for the coordination of the policies, programs,
and activities of the Departments of the Interior; Commerce; Agriculture;
Army; the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and the States in the
field of water and related land resources investigation, planning,
construction, operation, and maintenance; to 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." The AWR Committee
1S further charged with coordination of work and resolution of conflicts.
As successor to ICWR, the Water Resources Council directed the Committee
to continue under its 1955 Charter. The Charter was amended by the Water
Resources Council effective December 12, 1969 to include the Department
of Transportation and Housing and Urban Developmentand to update the
geographic boundaries. The Environmental Protection Agency was invited
to membership on March 22, 1971 and the Charter amended to include this
agency to membership on September 15, 1972. On October 23, 1975 the
beginning of the operating year was changed from July 1 to October 1 to
reflect the new Federal fiscal year.

AREA AND ORGANIZATION

The geographical area encompassesd by AWRBIAC includes the entire State
of Oklahoma and those portions of the States of Louisiana, Missouri,
Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico lying within the Arkansas-
White-Red River Basins, but excluding the Ouachita River Basin and those
portions of the Arkansas, White, and Red Rivers affected by the Mississippi
River backwater which are now included in the Jurisdiction of the Mississippi
River Commission. The eight states of the basins and the eight Federal
agencies having a participating responsibility in the development of the
water and related land resources of the basins are AWRBIAC members. The
Governor of each state designates the official representative on the
Committee. Each Federal agency has designated a representative to serve
on the Committee. The Chairman Agency, selected on an annual basis a year
in advance by and from the participating agencies, provides a Secretary
to the AWRBIAC. The Secretary serves as Chairman of the Administrative
Committee, which is responsible for AWRBLAC meeting arrangements and
dissemination of program materials.

!! AWRBIAC as utilized herein does not refer to the original Arkansas-
White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee which was established by
Presidential directive in 1950 and dissolved in June 1955.