WSP03099

• File Number: 8410
• Description: Platte River Basin-Basin Multistate Organizations
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 11/16/1954
• Title: Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee-Charter
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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November 16, 1954

CHARTER

FOR

MISSOURI BASIN INTER-AGENCY COMMITTEE

1. INTRODUCTION - In order to facilitate progress on the program of

water and related land resources development in the Missouri River Basin,

the Missouri Bssin Inter-Agency Committee was established March 29, 1945 by

the Federal Inter-Agency River Basin Committee to implement the policies

and purposes of the Federal Inter-Agency agreement, dated December 29, 1943.

A new Federal Inter-Agency agreement on coordination of water and related

land resources activities was approved by the President on May 26, 1954.

The Charter of the Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee is accordingly

herein revised to be in consonance with t he new Federal Inter-Agency

agreement.

2. PURPOSE - It is the purpose of this agreement to provide in the

~tssouri River region improved facilities and procedures for the coordi-

nation of the policies, progr8a8snd activities of the Departments of the

Interior: Commerce: Labor; Agriculture;;..Hi!alth, Education, and Welfare;

and the Army; the Federal Power Commission; and the States in the field of

water and related land resources investigation, planning, construction,

operation, and maintenance; to provide means by which conflicts may be

resolved; and to provide procedures for coordination of their interests

with those of other Federal, local governmental, and private agencies in

the water and related land resources field.

3. ESTABLISHMENT-

(a) For this purpose there is established s Missouri Basin Inter-

Agency Committee to be comprised of representatives of the Departments of

the Interior: Commerce; Labor: Agriculture; Health, Education, and

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