8014

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8014
• Author: McDonald, W. J.
• Title: The Upper Basins' Political Conundrum
• USFW Year: 1997.
• USFW - Doc Type: A Deal is Not a Deal.
• Copyright Material: NO

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Preface
This paper has been prepared at the request of the Western Water Policy
Review Advisory Commission. Formation of the Commission was authorized
and directed by the Western Water Policy Review Act of 1992 (Pub. L.
No. 102-575, Title XX~~, 106 Stat. 4693).
Pursuant to section 3003(a) of the Act, the President is directed:
...to undertake a comprehensive review of Federal activities in the nineteen
Western States which directly or indirectly affect the allocation and use of
water resources, and to submit a report on ... [his] findings, together with
recommendations, if any, to ... [certain committees of Congress].
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to assist
In turn section 3004(a) of the Act rovides that the Commission is
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• current and proposed Federal water resources programs,

• the history, use, and effectiveness of various institutional
arrangements to address problems of water use and development, and
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The conclusions and recommendations presented in this paper are those of
the author alone, not of the Commission. This paper is but one of many
studies, reports, and other sources of information and analysis to which the
Commission will look as it assists in the preparation of the report which the
President is required to submit.
The first edition of this paper was dated May, 1997. This second edition
differs from the first only in that footnotes 55-58 have been inserted (they
misprinted in the first edition) and the format of a few statutory citations in
' other footnotes has been corrected. The text of the paper is unchanged.
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