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A'?;,~~ > Only with these assumptions clearly documented can the primary users of the Assess- ment (the executive branch, the Congress, and Federal-State agencies) determine how the resulting priorities and conclusions and recommendations relate to their goals and desires. Activities, Schedule, Budget. and Organization I As shown in figure 3, a total of three major analysis steps and 26 activities have been defined for accomplishing the objectives and developing the major products of the 1975 Assessmen t. . Regional sponsors have the primary responsibility for conducting the specific-problem analysis; whereas, the WRC through the NPA Committee has the primary responsibility for conducting both the nationwide analysis and the national priorities analysis. Nationwide Analysis The nationwide analysis comprises five phases. Phase I-(February 1974-0ctober 1974) Activities required include estimating current (1975) volumetric supplies and requirements and future (1985 and 2000) volumetric requirements for water, based upon a given set of assumptions. This phase also includes extracting volumetric water use infomlation from completed State-regional studies and compilation of this information in a fom1at which is directly comparable with the supply and requirement infomlation being generated by the Assessment. Phase I1-(November 1974-February 1975) Activities required include an analysis of the adequacy of the volumetric supplies for meeting existing and future requirements, comparisons of the requirements infonnation ex tracted from completed planning reports with Assessment-generated requirements, and transmittal of the results to the regional sponsors for their use as they conduct specific-problem analysis activities. \ Phase IIl-(February 1974-May 1975) Activities required include nonvolumetric require- ments projections for 1975, 1985, and 2000; identification and description of the effects of projected future conditions on national economic development, regional development, environmental quality, and social well-being; identification and description of the location and nature of specific nonvolumetric problems which are expected to arise in each aggregated subarea (ASA); and identification of important water and related land resources which should be studied for possible retention in their natural state because of their scenic, recreational, or cultural values. , Phase IV -(November 1974-May 1975) Activities required include making and analyzing projections for 1975, 1985, and 2000 of seven major variations from the projected con- ditions in phase Ill; determining the effects that these variations would have on relative volumetric deficiencies and instrearn flow levels at the exit point of each ASA; and iden- tifying and describing the effect of these variations on national economic development, regional development, environmental quality, and social well-being. 7