WSP11627

• File Number: 8112.600
• Description: Arkansas White Red Basins Interagency Committee AWRBIAC
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 1/1/1952
• Title: Arkansas White Red Basins Inter Agency Committee Procedure Guide Second Edition
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Operating Principles/Plan

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(3) The Governor's Representative will arrange joint aotion
among the work groups oonoerned.so. ~hat th.e necessar.yhydrol;:o~<l studies
are cond~oted and adeq~ately coordinated. The objeotive is to insure that
the studies are aooomplished within the soope and time schedules required
and that agreement is secured on the basio assumptions neoessary to pro-
vide a ocmmon footing for all hydrologio studies. Where unable to make
suoh arrangement s, the Governor's R,opresentative '.will .o.e.ll .the problelll to
the nttention of the Tulea'Group,'for' further aotion~',"':, .~. : ..~ ,',':.' .

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. f. Governors' Represe;"te:t1v~s' of adjaoent. sta.t;es a.e~i.'sted'.as
neoessary by the Tulsa Group, will ,endeavor to. resolve oTo.ss;"Curicti'on.al
ooordination problems involving both their States' by joint'locaY' aotion':
of State and Federal agencies a11d wvrk groups concerned'; wl1e.r6v~r possi-.
ble. They will insure 'close ooordination of planning with"all interstate
water compact commissions. Coordination questions which have not been
settled locally will be referred to AVffiBIAC.

g. At such tin~ as the Governor's Representative' finds that
ooordination within any work group or among work groups has not been
arranged as outlined in paragraph 3 of this memorandum, he shall refer
the matter to the Tulsa Group or the Inter-Agency Committee.

h. Where the Governor's Representative is unable to discharge
his ooordination task beoause of limitations of money or personnel, he
may request technical and administrative assistance from the Tulsa Group.

i. This procadure for State coordination does not relieve the
Inter-Agency Committee, collectively or individually, of its fundamental
responsibilities, nor does it relieve the work groups of any responsibility
for tasks assigned to them.

5. Tulsa Group. A technical inter-agency group, of which the Offioer
in Charge, AeVR Orfice, Corps of Engineers, in Tulsa, is Chair~an, hae been
assigned the responsibilities listed below. This group, hereafter referred
to as the "Tulsa Group" is composed of the representatives of the partioi-
pating agencies with offices looated in Tulsa, and representatives of the
other participating agencies and the States who desire to take part. The
responsibilities of the Tulsa Group are to.

a. Help define the area of coverage of each work group, and
thereby propose to the AWRBIAC a detailed statement of the coverage of
the comprehensive survey. This statement will be, in effect, the combined
work outlines of all of the work groups.

b. fmintain close liaison with the Governor's Representatives
and assist them in achieving intra-state cross-functional coordination of
A,ffiBIAC activities as well as coordination among states.

o. Bring before the AWRBIAC any coordination problems ~~ch .
it is unable to resolve.

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