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1-8 I I I I I I I I .1 I I I I I I I I I I members of the Commission and to the public for official 90-day review. After the review, all comments were considered by the Commission and adjustments in the report were made as needed. i. The final report was transmitted to State and Federal agencies, basin State Governors, State legislatures, Congress, and the U.S. Water Resources Council. THE REPORT This report presents the current water resources management plan for the Missouri River Basin with a minimal amount of background and support material intended to facilitate understanding the plan, its purposes, objectives, and origin. The plan focuses only on water and r,elated land resources planning objectives, problems and opportunities, and recommendations as required by law. Just as the Commission's planning activities are conducted principally by water resources subbasin, this report is organized by subbasin. With certain qualifications, the plan for each subbasin is presented in a separate chapter. Since there are numerous basinwide and statewide plan elements which apply to all or most of the subbasins, these are presented in a separate chapter, chapter 2, which deals with the entire Missouri River Basin. The plan for each subbasin consists, therefore, of both the plan elements presented in the subbasin's respective chapter and the relevant plan elements from the basinwide chapter. The reason for presenting each subbasin's plan in two parts is that ,there are many basinwide and statewide programs which relate to several or all of the subbasins. To include each of the programs with all of the subbasins to which they relate would have required repeating most of the elements throughout the report. This organization serves, therefore, to eliminate a large amount of duplication and significantly shortens the report.