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~.'''l J 002~) ~3!'m o6/-; # _"~:>' ,{C';ii\ ~+?3t:j FROM THE COORDINATING COMMITTEE ON MISSOURI RIVER MAIN STEM RESERVOIR OPERATIONS RESERVOIR CONTROL CENTER, OMAHA, NEBRASKA f: j ~ A. M. Release 20 April 1960 No. 637 Public views on how the water stored in Missouri River main stem re- servoirs should be controlled &"ld regulated for the 1960-61 season will be heard at a public meeting in Omaha, May 17. The all-day session, to be conducted by the Coordinating Committee on Missouri River Main Stem Reservoir Operation, will be the third consecutive yearly meeting for this purpose. R. J. Pafford, Jr., Chief of the Missouri River Reservoir Control Center located in Omaha, and chairman of the Coordinating Committee" said the meet- ing is intended to provide a forum for expression of public opinion on storage and regulation of flows of the Missouri River in actual year-to-year opera- tions of the large reservoirs on the main stem of the Missouri. The meeting will be open to all interests affected by the multiple-purpose fu."lctions of the five operating reservoirs--Fort Peck in ~~ntana; Garrison in North Da.l{ota; Oahe and Fort Ra."ldall in South Dakota, and Gavins Point on the South Dakota-Nebraska border. Mr. Pafford points out that the Coordinating Committee is a water scheduling group, not a legislative body. It does not have authority to act upon proposals for modifications of project designs or changes in basic legislative provisions gov~rning over-all construction and operation of the l'lissouri Basin program. -.~:~, -.^ -~':... The May meeting will be held in conjunction with the Coordinating Com- mittee's regular spring meeting at which general criteria andgbjectives' for the 1960-61 annual reservoir operating plan will be developed. The Committee ~~~~ -"~;'::'-"-~~2 fi~t0~_: tt}.'(~ ~Jl ~-g::.';:P .: '~"-';, :.;.,:.;.: -~ '::~-)I''';:;::~ !~~~;i :-i'~::-};::' F';.f:'" ~}~<~~ ~~;i?~*~ I ~~[~ 'r~" ,~~~ ~,~/-'X I ~~E~ f1~~~:~.~~ t%:~:r. .}:~...:::-=~ :~'.-" "';;' .' :/-~. ',".'-,' :"."-:..-..;?;- " MORE