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<br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />RIVER BASIN SURVEY <br />Type I Surveys <br />Comprehensive Framework Studies <br /> <br />A program of comprehensive river basin planning has been designed <br /> <br />by the President's Ad Hoc Water Resource Council to achieve the Adminis- <br /> <br />trations objective of covering the entire Nation with regional framework <br /> <br />studies and to accelerate formulation of detailed plans for the sub- <br /> <br />basins fo these regions. <br />The framework studies of 18 regions encompassing the Nation <br /> <br /> <br />(except Alaska) will furnish a general appraisal of overall water and <br /> <br /> <br />related land resource development needs. The comprehensive plans <br /> <br /> <br />developed from these studies will provide economic projections of <br /> <br />economic development, translation of such projections into demands <br /> <br />for water and related land resource uses, hydrologic projections of <br /> <br /> <br />water availability, both as to quantity and quality, and projections of <br /> <br /> <br />related land resource availability so as to outline the characteristics <br /> <br /> <br />of projected water and related land resource problems and the general <br /> <br />approaches that appear appropriate for their solution. <br /> <br />Framework plans will be based on initial planning steps using <br /> <br />general relations, reasoned approximations and available data. While <br /> <br /> <br />potential sites may be identified project formulation studies will not <br /> <br /> <br />be undertaken at any stage of framework planning. <br /> <br /> <br />The framework studies will provide general guides to future <br /> <br />water resource development. The plans will indicate which regions <br /> <br />or subbasins within them have water problems calling for prompt <br /> <br />detailed planning efforts as well as those where no such problems <br /> <br />are current or looming. In addition, these studies will provide <br /> <br />a substantial contribution of fact and analyses to subsequent <br /> <br />detailed plan formulation. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />".. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br />