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o c Co.) ~ <0 N SPECIAL INlEREST PRESENTATIONS Special interest presentations made during FY 1977 are sunmarized below: Proposal to Study High Plains Project Dr. Pat O1oate, Director of Office of EconooU.c Research of the Econcmi.c DeveloIX!lffit Administration, Depart::Inant of Ccmrerce, discussed the Proposal to Study the High Plains Project. Dr. Choate explained that irrigation within the 8l29l:i million acres of the High Plains area serves as the fOlU'ldation for a good deal of the agricultural prosperity in that region and that water in the Ogallala formation is being depleted. In consideration of the problem and its econcmi.c impact on the region, narbers of Congress frcm the States of Texas, Oklahoma,' Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico requested EDA to undertake to detennine Yohat the economic impacts would be and to propose a range of options in dealing with the problan. Water and Related Lands Program in A-W--R Area Mr. Frank J. Iuen, III, Director of Ozarks Regional C<Xm1ission, discussed water and related land l?rograms funded by the Carmission. He said the Ozarks Regional Carmiss~on was established ten years ago under the provisions of the Public Works and Economic Developrent Act of 1965. Its charge is to plan, foster, and accelerate the orderly economic develoIX!lffit of the states of Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, louisiana, and Oklahoma. Non-nuclear Energy Water Requirenents Study Mr. Frank Do.venport of WRC replaced Peter Rarnatowski to discuss the study. He said that WRC has had broad and continuing interest in needs for use of water for energy developrent. In the 1970's, WRC participated in the Project Independence program and published a report entitled, ''Water for Energy Self Sufficienty. II WRC has continued this program, and the current program is being conducted by \oiRe's Ener~ Developrent and Implications Carmittee (EDIG). To enable participaHon of WRC I s Regional Sponsors in this ac ti vi ty, $50,000 has been provided. 14