WSPC06962

• File Number: 8200.300.20
• Description: Colorado River-Colorado River Basin-Colorado River Basin Legislation-Law-Federal
• State: CO
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 2/6/1987
• Title: CR Colorado River Floodway Protection Act-Corres Reports etc-1987-89-Charter-Colorado River Floodway Task Force
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Operating Principles/Plan

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CHARTER
COLORADO RIVER FLOODWAY TASK FORCE

1. The Colorado River Floodway Protection Act (Public Law 99-450) provides
that there shall be a Colorado River Floodway Task Force which shall operate
under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law
92-463).

2. The official designation of the task force shall be the "Colorado River
Fl oodway Task Force."

3. The purpose, objective, and scope of the Task Force shall be to advise the
Secretary of the Interior and the Congress and to prepare recommendations
concerning the Colorado River Floodway, which recommendations shall deal
with:

a. the means to restore and maintain the Floodway, including but not
limited to, specific instances where land transfers or relocations, or
other changes in land management, might best effect the purposes of the
Colorado River Floodway Protection Act;

b. the necessity for additional Floodway management legislation at local,
tribal, State. and Federal levels;

c. the development of specific design criteria for the creation of the
Floodway boundaries;

d. the review of mapping procedures for Floodway boundaries;

e. whether compensation should be recommended in specific cases of economic
hardship resulting from impacts of the 1983 flood on property outside
the Floodway which could not reasonably have been foreseen; and

f. the potential application of the Floodway on Indian lands and
recommended legislation or regulations that might be needed to achieve
the purposes of the Floodway taking into consideration the special
Federal status of Indi an 1 ands.

4. The time necessary for the Task Force to carry out its purposes extends to
the termination date for the Task Force set forth in section 4(c) of Public
Law 99-450. The Task Force shall terminate on October 7, 1987, or when the
Secretary of the Interior has filed with the congressional committees the
maps described in section 5(b)(2) of Public Law 99-450, whichever is later.
A renewal charter shall be filed not later than October 7, 1988. if the Task
Force is in existence at that time.

5. The Task Force shall report to the Secretary of the Interior and the
Congress through the Commissioner of Reclamation. The Regional Director.
Lower Colorado Region, Bureau of Reclamation, shall be the designated
Department of the Interior representative (section 4(a)(11), Public Law
99-450) and shall serve as the Chairman of the Task Force and the Designated
Officer, as required by section 10(f) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act.