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0 r.-.... .... W CJl <D . ANNUAL REPORT ARKANSAS-WITE-RED BASINS IllTER-AGEllC'J: COMMl'l.'rEE I. Introduction and Background This report covers the activities ot the second rear ot operation ot the present Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-AgencY Committee, hereinatter reterred to as AWRBIAC or the AWR Committee. As 'the report tor the year 1955-56, July 1, 1955 through June 30, 1956, covered in considerable detail tne background and organization ot the Committee, only passing reference vill be made herein, suffi- cient to give a basic background ot the history and development of the present Committee. Organized originally in 1950, in accordance with Presi- dential Directive to ca.rry out that provision of the Flood Control Act ot 1950 calling tor a unitied plan of development for the three basins, the origina.l AlJRBIA Committee submitted its report on June 30, 1955, thus completing its basic mission. Consistent with existing practice in other major basins and in response to local expressions of need and desirability for a con- tinuing coordinating body in the AWE Easins, the Inter-Agency Committee on Water Resources approved a charter (copy attached hereto as Appendix A) for the establishment of a new committee to be activated in July 1955. Activities of the nev committee set forth as purposes in its charter are directed toward: (1) providing, at the Regional level, improvement of coordination ot activities in the field ot vater and related land rssources; (2) providing a means by vhich Inter-Agency problems in this field may be resolved; (3) developing suggestions to the Inter-Agency Committee on Water Resources and the States relative to changes in lay or policy vhich vould promote these purposes; and (4) the collection and interpretation of basic data. II. Organic Structure and Membership From the standpoint of both structure and internal operations, the committee is organized with an emphasis on simplicity. Governors of each of the eight States, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, vhich lie wholly or in part in the tnree basins, name a representative to membership on the Committee. Each of the Federal agencies having a participating responsibility in the develop- ment of the vater and related land resources of the basins are represented by a designee ot the head of the agency. Those Federal agencies repre- sented are: The Departments of Agriculture, Army, Commerce, Interior, Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Federal Poyer Commission. 1