WSP01080

• File Number: 8407.500
• Description: Platte River Basin - River Basin General Publications - Missouri River
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 6/1/1978
• Author: Missouri Basin Inter
• Title: Missouri River Basin Comprehensive Framework Study-revised Volume III-Law-policies-and Administration-Appendix
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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CONTENTS*

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CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION .............................................................. 1

PURPOSE................................................................................. 1
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ........................................................ 1

SCOPE ................................................................................... 3

CHAPTER 2 - STATE WATER lAWS, POLICIES, AND ADMINISTRATION. . .. .. .. . .. .. . .. 5
STATE OF COLORADO .................................................................... 5

STATE OF IOWA. ......... .................... ..................... ....................... 13
STATE OF KANSAS. .............................. ... ....... ............................... 39
STATE OF MINNESOTA...........:........................................................ 84
STATE OF MISSOURI... ........ ....... ..... ... ... ............ ......... .......... ........ ..120
STATE OF MONTANA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158
STATE OF NEBRASKA.................................................................... .164
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA............................................................... .176
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA............................................................... .181
STATE OF WyOMING....................................... ........................ ...... .187

CHAPTER 3 - FEDERAL WATER lAWS AND POLICiES...................................... .197
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ............................................ .197
THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION AND WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200

CHAPTER 4 - PROBLEMS IN FUTURE WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .232

FIGURES

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States and River Systems, International Waterways Treaty, and Interstate Water
Compacts and Supreme Court Decrees. Missouri River Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

'The original format of volume 3 of the Framework Study has been presented with updated material being
inserted into the appropriate programs. Most of the information is supplemental in character with the
Missouri contribution being a restatement from previous work.

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