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Rio Grande Coordinating Committee. The Rio Grande Coordin- ating Cormni ttee consists of a member from each of ,the three States (Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas), and a regional member from each of the eight Federal Departments or Agencies which are represented on the Water Resour-ces Council. Actual membership is shown in "Ac- knowledgments." This Committee, with the RegionaI' Study Director, is the staff and advisor to the Commissioner of Reclamation who is the Regional Sponsor for the Rio Grande Region. Others. Through referral of draft material to public partic- ipants selected by the State members on the Rio Grande Coordinating Committee, or as suggested by any member of the Rio Grande Coordinat- ing Committee, the Assessment has obtained input from other sources. This input has resul ted in revisions in draft material. In some cases pertinent copies-nor Le1:Tersnha:v'e been iric1udea in the reports or appendixes for reference. As a rule the public response has been the source of only a few changes and additions mainly because the principal purpose of the Assessment has been to identify problems and not to provide soiutions. Providing solutions, which may result from recommendations in the Assessment, undoubtedly will result in more public response since something tangible usually is involved and may directly affect people or established conditions. Overview. Assessment activities and results have been effective in id'enttfying the severe and major problems in the Region relating to water and land resources. Most of the problems have been iden- tified in previous studies or plans, so that the Assessment partly has been a reiteration of previous work. Efforts to evaluate the severity or priority of solving prob- lems from statistical data, such as summarized in comparisons of ' SRF data with MCC data, have only been partially successful. A principal reason for this has been the identification of significant differences between SRF and MCC base year (1975) data as outlined in Chapter III. Significant differences can occur in such data due to differences in time periods, sources of information, and due to many people compiling details, as well as differences in assump- tions and criteria used in estimating and compiling the data. The only sure and practical way to agree on base year data is to have the estimators agree in advance on basic assumptions and criteria to be used and then to review the results and adjust the estimates until all are in agreement at the beginning. All future assess- ments should begin from the same bench mark or base year data. When many people from the States and Federal agencies are working on a cooperative study, such as the Assessment, it is essential that sufficient priority be given to the study to meet target dates for performance of work. As in all such broad ven- tures, whether it be the Assessment or some other activities, the 82 .., ". r ." . .. \.:'~I~.6.J....