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Report On Regional Planning Pacific Southwest Interagency Committee December 10, 1980 fu!..ckground The Pacific Southwest Interagency Committee at a special meeting February 7, 1980, discussed the issue of formal regional planning, The discussion was prompted by overtures from the Water Resources Council to entities in non-Title II River Basin areas to enter into contracts with WRC for development of a regional water planning process with the intent of formulating regional water plans. The PSIAC declined to enter into such an agreement at that time, but took actions to. initiate preparation of a report which l~ould document existing interstate and interagency organizations which were already addressing regional problems. It was felt that in addition, the report should contain some discussion of regional goals and objectives and regional issues. Regional Goals and Objectives In a recent publication of the Water'"!l.esources .Council, it was stated that basinwide compre~ensive water and related land resource management plans should be developed "...within a !ramework of national goals and regionally agreed-upon goals and objectives", Such plans were declared to have an objective of "...assisting a region in meeting its water and related land resourc~s needs... II PSIAC concurs that regional and national water-related goals, objectives, and/or needs must be identified if meaningful regional planning is to. result. At various times in recent years, there have been attempts to examine and define water-related objectives and problems so that they might be adequiltuly addressed, The first national assessment of the I,ater Resources Council, an overviuw of the nation's water resources by region, I_as completed in 1968, The Comprehensive Framework, or Type I, studies I_ere completed in C-2