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<br />OD3Z"1 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The possibility of basin water management by linked intrastate river or <br /> <br /> <br />water management entities assumes such entities exist or have been legislatively <br /> <br /> <br />authorized. That is not the case in all states" The question then becomes: if <br /> <br /> <br />it would be necessary to create such entities before joining them by contract or <br /> <br /> <br />compact, wouldn't it be simpler to create a multi-state river basin water <br /> <br /> <br />management entity by interstate compact? The answer is undoubtedly yes, <br /> <br /> <br />unless the intrastate entities themselves can perform other, valuable services in <br /> <br /> <br />their individual jurisdictions. <br /> <br />D. <br /> <br />Inter-Agency Committees <br /> <br />Characteristics <br /> <br />Six inter-agency river basin committees were created from 1945-50 by <br /> <br /> <br />action of the Federal Inter-Agency River Basin Committee, an affiliation of the <br /> <br /> <br />Departments of Agriculture, Army and Interior and the Federal Power <br /> <br /> <br />Commission. The FIARBC was created to coordinate river basin development at <br /> <br /> <br />the federal level when the National Resources Planning Board was abolished in <br /> <br /> <br />1943" FIARBC was itself replaced by the Inter-Agency Committee on Water <br /> <br /> <br />Resources and the latter was terminated when the U.S. Water Resources Council <br /> <br /> <br />was created in 1965. Inter-agency river basin committees still exist in the <br /> <br /> <br />Arkansas-Red-White River basins and in the southwest and southeast United <br /> <br /> <br />States. <br /> <br />Inter-agency committees for specific river basins were composed of <br /> <br /> <br />representatives of the basin's states and federal agency representatives. Their <br /> <br /> <br />-15- <br />