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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 000373 CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND AND AUTHORITY The first comprehensive water resources study for the Missouri River Basin was conducted by the Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee prior to the establishment of the Missouri River Basin Commission. The report on the study was published in December 1971. This seven-volume report, The Missouri River Basin Comprehensive Framework study, presented the results of the first effort in the Missouri River Basin to assess and address the major current and future water resources needs and opportunities of the entire basin. The Missouri River Basin Commission was established in 1972 under the authority of the Water Resources Planning Act of 1965 (P.L. 89-80), which states in part that each river basin commission shall: Serve as the principal agency for the coordination of Federal, State, interstate, local, and nongovernmental plans for the 'development of water and related land resources in its area, river basin, or group of river basins; and prepare and keep up-to-date, to the extent practicable, a comprehensive, coordinated, joint plan for Federal, State, interstate, local, and nongovernmental development of water and related land resources... The Commission began preparing its first basinwide water resources management plan in 1975 in an effort coordinated with the Commission's participation in the u.s. Water Resources Council's 1975 National Water Assessment. A report summarizing the plan, titled Missouri River Basin Water Resources plan, was published in August 1977. The Commission's planning process is continuous, producing an ever evolving and responsive plan of action for the Missouri River Basin. However, the Commission also perceives a need for taking long and regular strides 1-1