WSP00915

• File Number: 8273.100
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control - Federal Agencies - Bureau of Reclamation
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 11/1/1991
• Author: BOR
• Title: Strategic Plan-Bureau of Reclamation - draft
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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In 1987, Reclamation examined the direction of its
programs. That examination, Assessment' 87, recognized the need
for increased emphasis on the improved management of projects
and the protection of environmental values. As an integral pan of
this assessment, Reclamation reviewed its organizational structure
and programs to determine whether adjusnnents were necessary to
more effectively meet its responsibilities. In 1988, a significant
reorganization of Reclamation was implemented to create a more
efficient and cost-effective agency.

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Reclamation initiated development of the Straregic Plan in
1990. This plan builds upon the Assessment' 87 and sets fonh a
broad, long-term framework for resource management,
development, and protection with specific goals and strategies
Reclamation will pursue as it moves into the twenty-first century.
It continues Reclamation's role in providing for sustained
economic growth and an improved environment and quality of life
in the West.

The Straregic Plan consists of 25 separate program elements
grouped into 5 sections. Each element includes. a Guiding
Principle, Goal, and Strategies. The Goal states "where"
Reclamation wants to be, while specific Strategies set fonh "what"
needs to be done to achieve that goal.

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MANAGING AND DEVELOPING RESOURCES, Section 1, sets
fonh the goals which Reclamation will seek to achieve in resource
conservation, management, and development in the years ahead.
A balanced approach to the stewardship of the West's scarce water
and associated land and energy resources is the keynote of these
goals. Full recognition is given to the primacy of State water right
laws and State water allocation responsibilities.

PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT, Section 2, recognizes
that increased environmental knowledge and changing societal
values have placed an ever greater emphasis on the protection of
oui' natural resources. These goals, which are a logical extension
of Reclamation's increased efforts to improve the management of
existing resources, focus on the need for an environmentally sound
program as Reclamation moves toward its second century of
service to the Nation.

SAFEGUARDING THE INVESTMENT, Section 3, addresses the
fact that the Nation has invested approximately $16 billion in
Reclamation water resource and hydropower facilities since 1902.

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