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were questions of responsibility and liability for non-Federal dams; state dam inventories; risk classification of dams; emergency preparedness planning; technical, funding and training assistance to the states; post- failure investigations; liability insurance for dam owners; dam failure cost data; dam terminology; and other related areas. Thirty-two recommendations relevant to the above issues were made by the Committee to the U.S. Government, primarily through FEMA, to help states and owners improve non- Federal dam safety. Other major dam safety issues, which were reported by the states in the 1982 and 1984 survey studies, were summarized earlier in Section II. From the above studies and from discussions at various state, regional, or national meetings, certain non-Federal dam safety issues and needs repetitively surfaced. For practical reasons, all of these issues and needs can not be addressed at the same time by any national dam safety coordinating organization or agency, such as FEMA. Results and ideas from recent studies and dam safety meetings were distilled and represented as the ten major issues and problem areas for consideration by state dam safety officials. In the present survey, the state officials were asked to rate the degree of importance of each issue for their respective states on a scale of 1 to 10, so that the issue ranking priorities could be determined from rating averages. A rating of 1 denotes "not important" and 10 means "very important." An "N" was allowed for "no opinion." State officials were given an opportunity to list and rate additional issues, needs, and problems, which they think are important and need attention in their states. The following section summary lists the ten issue questions and summarizes the state responses. Table 3 summarizes the individual state responses to the issue questions. -31-