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r ~ .. / - VU{..~: 0) ~ Larry Murphy who are going to talk to us about three important topics. We want you to know that we are pleased to have all of you here and we do have these meetings on a recurring basis. This is a particular meeting sponsored by the MBSA, but the Corps does sponsor two meet- ings a year to discuss the Missouri River main stem. A spring meeting and a fall meeting. We have, in the past, scheduled those at various locations along the Missouri main stem and the next meeting will be held on Thursday, April 7th in Omaha at the Kiewit Con- ference Center. Some of you may not have attended in the past and may not be aware of those meetings, but I want to encourage you to come and if you are not on our mailing list and would like to be on the list of notices for those meetings, please give your name and address to anyone of the four of us up here. We will be glad to put you on the mailing list and insure you have a chance to speak to those issues. For those of you that may not be familiar with the Corps of Engineers and how we are organized, 1 come from the Missouri River Division and we have under our responsibility and command two districts. The Omaha District and the Kansas City District locate<! in Kansas City, Missouri. The District Engineers and their staff elOercise direction with the civil works area, the water resource area, and we are also concerned with the military construction program within the ten basin states. The one exception to that is the Division Headquarters does maintain control over the releases and the regulation of the main stem dams. Most folks are familiar with our water resource role in this room, but may not be familiar with our military construction role. We do provide design construction services for the Army and the Air Force within tbe ten states of the Missouri Basin. That includes a total of 210 minor installations and 33 major installations for the Army and the Air Force. Within the civil works area, the Corps began its responsibilities in 1824, some 164 years ago, when Congress appropriated money to im- prove navigation on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Since the 1936 Flood Control Act, the Corps has ef- fected some 350 reservoirs whose principal benefit has been flood control, but which would not have been built without other benefit sources to provide justifi- cation for those projects. The Corps is the nation's largest single producer of hydroelectricity. We operate some 70 projects, housing 344 turbine generator units with a total capacity of almost 21 million kilowatts. We operate and maintain some 260 locks and some 170 dams for navigation pur- poses. We operate more than 400 water resource proj- ects covering a total of more than 11 million acres. Each year some 500 million visitors enjoy fishing. hunting, swimming, and other water related activities at Corps recreational areas. Fish and wildlife conser- vation is an important aspect of the Corps' program. Looking more closely at the Missouri River Divi- sion's area of responsibility, our Division of Civil Works covers all or portions of ten st'Btes. You saw that watershed depicted on the slides in the earlier presentations this morning. Our civil works bounda- ries exactly follow the limits of the watershed of the Missouri River and its tributaries. Our civil works pro~ gram includes design and construction of a wide va- riety of flood control structures, including 48 dams in the Missouri River Division. The Omaha and Kansas City districts have respon- sibility for regulation of the 42 Corps tributary res- ervoirs and the 22 Bureau of Reclamation reservoirs whicn tne Corps is responsible for in flood operations. As I mentioned a few minutes ago, my headquarters, the Division Headquarters, has retained responsibility for regulation of the SilO main stem dams. To manage this we use our Reservoir Regulations Center and our Reservoir Control Center. Three members of the Res- ervoir Control Center staff are here with me today to discuss the regulations of the six main stem reservoirs. For the remainder of this morning's session, we will describe in some detail the purposes for which the reservoirs are built and the purposes for whicn they are operated. We will limit OUT discussion to the reg- ulation of the Missouri River main stem. We intend to describe the objectives to meet authorized purposes and also to outline a few of the many considerations that go into deciding what the operations will be. Our first presentation will be given by Mr. Duane Sveum. 23