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KEYNOTE ADDRESS ., Leo M. Eisel Director U. S. Water Resources Council ~ I am pleased to have this opportunity to speak to you this evening on the very important topic of maintaining adequate instream flows. I am also pleased that the Water Resources Council has had an opportunity over the past few years to contribute to further work and assistance in the produc- tion of methodology for determining necessary minimum instream flow requirements. Over the past few years, the Water Resources Council, under authorities contained in Section 13 (a) of the Federal Nonnuclear Act of 1974, has made funds available to the Fish and Widlife Service and the Cooperative Instream Flow Service group for various phases of the work. In the course of pre- paring this speech, I have had the opportunity to review several of the documents produced by this program and am quite pleased with the results. The money has been well spent. I am sure that many of you here tonight have a great deal more experience and insight into the problems of maintaining adequate minimum stream flows than I do. I am also sure that many of you have spent a great deal more time working on this problem and are very familiar with the various technical, legal and political problems involved. Nevertheless, I would like to ask all of you to take a step back from the many details involved in your efforts and to view the problem of maintaining adequate minimum stream flows from the larger perspective of water resources management. ;J f 4