WSP02927

• File Number: 8021
• Description: Section D General Studies - Western States Water Council
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 1/1/1967
• Author: WSWC
• Title: Western States Water Council - First Annual Report - 1966
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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provide the Council with data and a review and evaluation of policy
alternatives as a basis for Council action.

Initially, the staff will be engaged in three concurrent efforts:

1. The development of draft statements of criteria and assumptions
to be applied by the Council in arriving at its recommendations
to the Governors. These will relate to matters of engineering
feasibility, economic feasibility, political responsibility, legal
considerations, ethical desirability, "the protection and further-
ance of state and local interests" and such other factors as may
be relevant.
2. An intensive review and evaluation of the plans and activities
of the states and the federal government in developing current
and long-range estimates' of water needs and water resources
in the eleven contigous western states and related areas. The review
will include:
a. Description of content and time schedule for completion of
current studies.
b. Identification of gaps in the information.
c. Suggestion of appropriate means of correcting the inadequacies
of the information.
3. Preparation of synopses of:
a. The suggestions for water resource developments requmng
or affecting interbasin diversion of western water, summarizing
the basic goals, . effects, and interrelationships of the
suggested diversions, and
b. Proposed state and federal legislation relating to (interbasin
diversion of) western water resources.

The Council meets quarterly with the regular annual meeting in July
to review staff progress. The July meeting is the annual meeting, at
which recommendations relating to deficiencies in the water informa-
tion and work programs for the ensuing year are determined.

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