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<br />agency representatives are selected for one-year te~s, whereas State <br />representatives are for two-year terms, except at. the first caucus this <br />year one representative was selected for U one-year term only, the other <br />for a two-year term, in order that one State representative may be <br />elected each year. The Articles further provide that the Chairman shall <br />have a vote only in case of a tie. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />The membership of the Administrative Committee during the year <br />1955-56 has been as follows: D. H. McCoskey, Department of the Army, <br />Corps of Engineers, who has served as Secretary of M{RBIAC, Chairmanj <br />E. V. Lindseth*, representing the Department of the Interior as the <br />next-year chairman agency j Edgar S. Coff'men, Federal Power Connnissionj <br />Ira C. Husky, representing the State of Oklahoma; and Colonel John J. <br />Ledbetter, representing the State of Texas. <br /> <br />The Administrative Committee's primary purpose or fUnction is to <br />relieve the AWRBIA Committee of time-consuming administrative detail and <br />procedures. More formally stated, the Administrative Committee is charged <br />with: <br /> <br />(1) Formulation of meeting agenda. <br /> <br />(2) Selection of meeting sites. <br /> <br />(3) SUII1lllLl.rization, ~7hen necessary, of program material, reports, <br />or papers. <br /> <br />(4) Supervision of meeting information and public participation <br />and other aspects of publIc relations. <br /> <br />(5) Preparation of periodic reports. <br />(6) Other duties as prescribed by AWRBIAC. <br /> <br />During the past year M'ffiBIAC meetings have been primarily devoted to <br />formal talks and presentations. The Administrative Committee has sought <br />other agenda items to develop a substantive program which ,{ill enable the <br />Committee to devote itself directly to its principal purposes. One such <br />endeavor has been to recommend that A\{RBIAC investigate the possibility of <br />sOlving some of the major problems which remained unsolved by the AWR Basins <br />Report. Two such problems are now being studied by ad hoc committees and <br />are discussed in Part E. <br /> <br />During the year the Administrative Committee has accomplished the <br />following activities: <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />*Lindseth served as Interior representative until April 1, 1956, at <br />which time Paul L. Fickinger, Area Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, <br />Muskogee, Oklahoma, was appointed by Secretary of Interior McKay to <br />represent the Department of the Interior. <br /> <br />5 <br />