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orn5C1S Mr. Wayne MacRos tie introduced the guest speaker, Mr. Milton Fullmer, Deputy Director of the Federal Housing Administration Insurance Office in Salt Lake City, who reviewed the Flood Disaster Protection Act (P.L. 99-234) and regulations on flood hazard insurance. Semiannual activity reports of the member agencies (July 1 through December 31, 1974) were highlighted and some additional inputs were made. A status-progress report was presented by each regional study director on the National Assessment. ~ Each Subcommittee Chairman reported activities since the last PSIAC meeting. The Water Management Subcommittee is reviewing the status of the river mile indexes. The Vegetation Subcommittee devoted most of its meeting to stripmining with a four-member panel and moderator. It was recommended that the parent Committee consider such a presenta- tion by the same panel at a future meeting. The Environmental and Recreation Subcommittee will meet with the Pacific Northwest Committee in Eugene, Oregon, early in June regarding a draft report on policies and procedures in recreation planning, and Mr. James Sears will report to the parent committee at the Albuquerque meeting. The Executive Subcommittee reported that, pursuant to bylaws, the semi- annual agency reports should be due 15 days before the December and June meetings rather than on the schedule presented earlier. The Executive Subcommittee will endeavor to present a final report at the June meeting on the study of the program needs in the Colorado River Basin. There was discussion regarding the FY 1976 chairmanship. This would be determined at the Executive Subcommittee meeting to be held previous to their Albuquerque meeting. It was agreed that when a State is chairman, the Executive Subcommittee chairman should be a Federal representative, and vice versa. PSIAC established procedures regarding distribution of PSIAC publications to members and repositories; also that a list of old reports be printed in new reports along with repositories. The PSIAC Chairman was directed to send a letter to the U.S. Water Resources Council indicating the Committee's support of the Sisk Bill regarding remote sensing of hydrologic data in wilderness areas. Each member was urged to support the measure as it is able. The meeting of the Consortium of Water Institutes and Centers (CWIC) representatives with the PSIAC advisory committee reviewed progress on the major research project entitled "Salinity Management Options for the Colorado River." The FY 1976 program was reviewed. It was felt that the 1976 program would be an extension of that initiated in 1975, but conclusions and recommendations would be available at the June meeting. 9