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, ' 000118 ~ . . Mr. Warren D. Fairchild August 19, 1974 Page two Because of its coordinating and comprehensive water planning responsibilities, the Board's effort interfaces with several Federal water resource planning and development agencies. The Board cooperates actively with the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation in the Upper Colorado Region, Colorado River Basin; with the Southwest Region, Rio Grande Basin; and with the Lower Missouri River Region, Arkansas, South Platte, North Platte, and Republican River Basins. Stemming from its flood control responsibilities, the Board coordinates its flood control activities with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Colorado River Basin through the Sacramento District Office; in the Rio Grande Basin and Arkansas River Basin through the Albuquerque District Office; in the South Platte River Basin, through the Omaha District Office; and in the Republican River Basin through the Kansas City District Office. The Board continued its role with the U. S. Geological Survey involving matching funds and personnel in the Survey's extensive stream gaging network and in its ground water basic data collection program for the South Platte, Arkansas, and Colorado River Basins to formulate conjunctive use models for the complex-aquifer inter- action relationships in these basins. In addition, the Board coordinated its planning activities with other Federal agencies concerned with water and related land resources planning programs. These included the Soil Conservation Service, the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Economic Research Service, and the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. P1anninq Procedures In recent years, it has become increasingly difficult to accomplish the statutory functions delegated to the Colorado Water Conservation Board with the small staff assigned to it. It was necessary that each staff member be assigned to so many projects at the same time that it was impossible to follow through on each project with the desired results. This, coupled with the recent legislation directing the Board to construct water resource projects, to designate floodplains, and to classify streams of the state for the protection of the environment, imposed requirements beyond the ability of the staff to accomplish.