8213

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8213
• Author: Johnson, J.
• Title: Early Instream Flow Studies.
• USFW Year: n.d.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

NEEDS IDENTIFIED
The critical need for a coordinated program to focus the many divergent
efforts in instream flow activities was documented in 1975 by the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, Office of Ecological Services, in a report entitled
"Toward a National Program of Substantive Instream Flow Studies and a Legal
Strategy for Implementing the Recommendations of Such Studies." This document
summarized the various needs identified by several groups:
1. The Columbia-North Pacific Region Comprehensive Framework Study of
the Pacific Northwest River Basins Commission emphasized the need'
for instream flow data as a prerequisite to planning, and placed a
high priority on studying legal and administrative means for
enforcing minimum stream flows.
2. The Second Annual Report of the Missouri River Basin Commission
identified the determination of instream flow requirements as a high
priority study.
3. The Department of the Interior's Westwide Study Report on Critical
Water Problems Facing the Eleven Western States found that a major
data gap existed in the determination of instream flow needs.
4. An Ad Hoc Instream Flow :Study Evaluation Committee of the Pacific
Northwest River Basins Commission identified critical needs,
including the development of low-cost methodologies, evaluation of
impacts and benefits for increments of flow, and improvement of