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<br />The Review Committee acknowledges with deep appreciation the assistance and thoughtful
<br />advice received from many federal, state, and local agencies, organizations, and individuals
<br />contacted during the course of this review. The collective wisdom, insights and experiences
<br />of these many people provided the Review Committee with an understanding of the problems
<br />and challenges of both living in and managing the floodplain. The Review Committee owes
<br />a debt of gratitude to those who set up and facilitated the public outreach sessions and the
<br />visits to flood affected areas. There will never be a substitute for seeing the problem area or
<br />talking to someone who has been through a flood.
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<br />Far too many people contributed to the effort to name them all individually. Because of
<br />their special contributions, however, the Review Committee would like to give special thanks
<br />to several groups and individuals. The leadership of the Administration Floodplain
<br />Management Task Force -- T. J. Glauthier, Associate Director, Office of Management and
<br />Budget; Kathleen McGinty, Director, White House Office for Environmental Policy; James
<br />R. Lyons, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources -- gave the Committee its
<br />charge and guided it along its path. Kathryn Way, White House Domestic Policy Council
<br />assisted in coordinating efforts with the states. Bruce Long, OMB, and Will Stelle, White
<br />House Office for Environmental Policy provided both expertise and day-to-day shepherding
<br />of Committee activities. Mark Schaefer, White House Office of Science and Technology
<br />Policy, assisted with SAST. Ray Clark, Patti Leppert-Slack and Kathleen Gallagher, Council
<br />on Environmental Quality, provided substantive insights and moral and administrative
<br />support. The White House Council of Economic Advisors sponsored Economics Advisory
<br />Group with Erik Lichtenberg, Chair; Jon Goldstein, USFWS; Jim Schaub, USDA; Peter
<br />Kuch, EPA; Robert Stearns, Department of the Army; and Norm Starler, OMB, served as an
<br />invaluable sounding board. Margaret Siegel, the National Governors Association, facili~
<br />contacts with the flood-affected and other interested states. Connie Hunt, the World Wildlife
<br />Fund, sponsored three in-basin workshops on use of the floodplain. Chris Brescia, MARC
<br />2000, facilitated access to the agriculture and river communities. W. H. Klingner and John
<br />Robb, Upper Mississippi Flood Control Association, provided entry to the many levee and
<br />drainage districts of the basin. Tom Waters, the Missouri Levee and Drainage District
<br />Association, offered a steady stream of information about the Missouri River levee situation.
<br />The UniYersities CounciL on Water Resources, Duane Baumann, gathered a team of
<br />distinguished academicians -- Ray Burby, Shirley Laska, Luna Leopold, Mary Fran Myers,
<br />Leonard Shabman, and Gilbert White -- to provide their views on floodplain management.
<br />Doug Plasencia and Larry Larson, Association of State Floodplain Managers, and Jon
<br />Kusler, Association of State Wetland Managers, shared their experiences and opened their
<br />files and their membership to the Review Committee. The nine flood state governors and
<br />their representatives facilitated and guided the Committee's extensive contacts within the
<br />states: Al Grosboll, Don Vonnahme and Maureen Crocker, Illinois; General Harold
<br />(Tommy) Thompson and LTC Tom Tucker, Iowa; Cindy Luxem, Kansas; Todd Johnson and
<br />Jim Franklin, Minnesota; Jerry Uhlman and Jill Friedman, Missouri; Dayle Williamson and
<br />Brian Dunnigan, Nebraska; Dave Sprynczynatyk and Jeff Klein, North Dakota; Gary
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