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The legal and other operational requirements and performance measures, along with the physical system <br />itself, will define the data requirements for the system of analytical tools. Determining these data <br />requirements will be the next major step. Recommendations as to the sources of the data required will be <br />developed and submitted to a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and a Policy Advisory Committee <br />(PAC), both of which are discussed below. Where data are not currently available or credible, <br />recommendations for additional data development will be submitted. <br />Finally, descriptions of the kinds of tools needed, as well as the recommendations for producing and <br />institutionalizing those tools, will be developed and submitted to the PAC and the TAC. <br />Step 1: Developing the Committees <br />Coordinating Committee <br />The Coordinating Committee will be made up of representatives of NHI and WRMI. The coordinating <br />committee will be directly responsible for supervising all technical work, staffing the PAC, and staffing <br />the TAC. The Coordinating Committee appoints the work groups and consultants, performs a primary <br />review of all reports, and will integrate all of the documentation into the final report. <br />Policy Advisory Committee <br />The first issue determines the parties to be directly represented in the consensus building process. <br />Because the PAC provides the primary policy direction and guidance for the Consensus Project, it must <br />be made up of representatives of those parties. The conveners of the project, USBR and FWS, are <br />represented, as well as the corresponding State agencies, State Water Resources Control Board, <br />Department of Water Resources and the Department of Fish and Game. Because of its important duties <br />under the Endangered Species Act, the National Marine Fisheries Service must also be represented. <br />Other PAC members include water users from the State and Federal Water Contractors Associations, as <br />well as two representative environmental groups. <br />The PAC can add new members or reorganize itself. In the long run, the individual members of the PAC <br />will need to convince their organizations to implement and use the tools recommended and/or developed <br />as a part of the Consensus Project. Therefore, the PAC members will need to be senior members of their <br />respective organizations. <br />Technical Advisory Committee <br />The PAC will determine the members of its TAC. The TAC is responsible for reaching consensus on the <br />technical details of the tools and techniques to be used. The TAC is the primary means of interagency <br />coordination for the project, providing direction for performance of individual tasks, suggesting <br />members of work groups and consultants, and reviewing all technical work products. Individual TAC <br />members are responsible for advising their corresponding PAC members. <br />Step 2: Developing Management Objectives <br />As mentioned above, clearly identifying the management objectives is critical to the success of the <br />Consensus Project. The objectives include legal requirements and potential ?performance measures,? <br />which assess the economic, social, and environmental benefits and adverse impacts. <br />3 <br />A275 01.09.95 1-19.2 Sheer <br />