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Orl314<J . 6 PSIAC has no budget and no full time staff, Federal agencies and state members participate in the work of the Committee in accordance with their respective responsibilities and interests, The chairman normally provides the necessary administrative support incident to his tenure, These responsibilities include publishing a roster of membership, making arrangements for meetings, publishing minutes and publishing the annual report, Any travel costs incurred by state representatives are paid by the respective states. The purpose of PSIAC is to serve as a means for coordinating policies, programs, and activities of the states and federal agencies in the field of water and related land resources investigation, planning construction, operation and maintenance; to provide a means whereby conflicts may be resolved; and to provide procedures for coordination of their interests with those of other agencies in the water and related land resources field. Meetings are held as often as they are deemed necessary, but not less than three times annual;I.y. Positions and decisions are reached generally by consensus. However, if a question becomes controversial, then a vote of the membership is taken, in which case a majority vote is determinative. It should be noted that PSIAC provides a for~m for coordinating water resources policies and planning in the Pacific Southwest where no river basin commissions have been established under Title II of the Water Resources Planning Act, The PSIAC has been actively working on one of the principal regional issues, augmentation of the Colorado River, by supporting and stimulating studies of water yield improvement by vegetative management, Upon a formal request by PSIAC, the Department of Agriculture conducted a reconnaissance survey of water yield improvement by vegetative management in the Colorado C-7