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<br />0006~6 <br /> <br />participation through the state engineer, the state water conservation or natural <br />resources agency. Financial support to the Council is shared equally among <br />all eleven western states. <br /> <br />A leaflet setting forth the Council's Program for Action, its Rules of' <br />Organization and Membership, has been distributed to you and I will not repeat <br />that information, <br /> <br />There are three working committees, the Executive Committee, the <br />Water Policy and Legislative Committee and the Water Resources Committee. <br />Each state has one representative on each committee, <br /> <br />The Executive Committee performs the functions usually associated with <br />such committees and meets when necessary between the quarterly meetings <br />of the full Council. <br /> <br />The Water Policy and Legislative Committee is charged with the "study <br />of the social, ethical, legal and political aspects associated with interstate <br />water resources development, and recommendations on policies and courses of <br />action relative to the role of the Council in relationship with the Water Resources <br />Council, pertinent river. basin commissions, appropriate federal agencies, the <br />member states and the legislatures of these states; federal and state statutes <br />affecting interstate water resources development; needs for new legislation; <br />'area of origin' assistance and protection; and the possible dissolution of <br />existing interstate or federal-state committees, councils or inter-agency groups." <br />The Policy and Legislative Committee is to develop and recommend basic <br />assumptions, objectives, principles and criteria for guidance of the. Council in <br />the fields of policy and legislation, <br /> <br />The Water Resources Committee is charged with developing and recom~ <br />mending basic principles and standards for guidance in the formulation of <br />concepts and plans for staged regional development of water resources, in- <br />cluding protection and furtherance of state and local interests. It will recommend <br />guidelines and procedures for the interstate exchange of basic data and in- <br />formation, and for the correlation of plans and schedules of water resource <br />development. It will also evaluate and advise the Council on all physical and <br />economic factors relevant to staged regional water development. These include, <br />but are not limited to, water supplies, water requirements, water quality, <br />conservation practices, waste water reclamation, flood control, sediment con- <br />trol, navigation, hydropower, recreation, fish and wildlife. <br /> <br />Each of these committees has developed <br />been approved by the Council, <br /> <br />a charter which, in turn, has <br /> <br />- 28- <br /> <br />,.""".... .:>..>....'<$;...,.".... <br />