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, I . :1 Meetings were held to discuss general procedures for the revision process and the objectives and information needs by resource area. Five workshop sessions were held between January 28, 1998 and April 9, 1998, to discuss these issues. The above table provides information on the meeting schedule. The purpose of the meetings was to review and revise management objectives and information needs, to establish relative priorities by study type, resource class, and research/monitoring question. The group was also tasked with reporting to the TWG during the process and to present recommendations on the revised information to the AMWG for adoption. The revised management objectives and information needs are the foundation to formulate annual plans and they will be reviewed and revised annually. Fourteen stakeholders prioritized information needs on April 23, 1998. The prioritization process was based on the time for initiation of the studies; no implication was made regarding the value of a specific stakeholder information need. The stakeholders value all objectives and information needs and no ranking was made regarding the differential absolute values of the various information needs. The prioritization relates only to the scheduling of relative information needs. Some of the information needs must be accomplished immediately whereas others could be delayed. The procedure to prioritize information needs had the following guidelines: 1) GCMRC staff provided technical clarification; 2) Ranking referred to scheduling for start of research or monitoring on a specific information need, no I'lInlcing would occur on objectives; and 3) Votes by each stakeholder could only be cast for 55 (approximately one third) of the information needs using two different methods. This was a constraint placed to make sure that greater focus was placed on picking the most critical time dependent information needs. All information needs were ranked by two methods. Method 0 was developed across all information needs regardless of category, i.e., biology or cultural resources. For example, a stakeholder could cast all 55 votes for biological information needs. O's were placed beside information needs for these 55 votes. Method X was developed to emphasize information needs within resource areas. Each stakeholder was asked to vote for at least 30 percent of information needs in each resource area. X's were placed for each of the 55 votes. i~ , ~~ , :l 1 r. ;~ :~-: '.-, .:' ~I :-. .-. ~;~ \. ~ ~. ~ i.~ )~ , :.~ :~. : 2