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Wildlife Service, Arizona Game and Fish Department, and Western Area Power Administration, among others. At these first three meetings the committee concentrated on helping the GCES researchers improve their individual research reports and the final integrated report. The first meeting in September 1986 was held to define the nature of the problem, the scientific and policy issues involved and to develop the process by which the committee's review would be conducted. The second meeting, in November 1986, provided an opportunity for the committee to discuss research issues with the GCES investigators. Field research was essentially finished by the committee's second meeting. Therefore recommendations on what research should have been conducted and how it should have been organized could not be used, but the committee did assist in analysis and interpretation of data in hand. At its third meeting (March 1987), the committee met with the team of GCES writers/investigators designated to integrate the separate studies into a synthesis of information about environmental effects. Thus the third meeting was dedicated to advising this team about report integration and to outlining this report and to assigning writing tasks. The committee scheduled its fourth meeting (July 1987) as a writing workshop. Approximately three weeks before this session, the GCES team completed their integrated report, which included four subteam reports as appendices, and sent it to the committee for review. The committee drafted conclusions and recommendations at this meeting. In September 1987, an executive group appointed by the committee chairman met in Washington, D.C., to further organize and edit this report to the Bureau of Reclamation. The committee was aware that it was reviewing investigations in progress, i.e., while the xiii