WSP06673

• File Number: 8112.600
• Description: Arkansas White Red Basins Interagency Committee - AWRBIAC
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 8/1/1976
• Title: Technical Memorandum - State Regional Futures and Problem Lists -- Activity 2 Phase II -- 1975 National Assessment --- part 2 of 3 -- Page 135 - 312
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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July 22, 1976

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TEXAS WATER RIGHTS COMMISSION
STAFF COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
ON TIlE
TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD DH.AFT HEPOHT
ENTITLED .
"1975 NATIONAL WATER ASSJ~SSI\mNT,
ARKANSAS-WIIITE-REDIUVER BASINS,
STATE REGIONAL FUTURE -- TEXAS (HEVIEW UltAFT)"

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Clarification of Current National and State Policiell.

The Commission staff recommends deletion or clarification of
the following statement on page 10:

,II The absence of a clear statemtlnt of national policy. . .
makes it most difficult to develop effective national programs
, and it would be just as difficult to develop effective st:1tewide
programs without a clear statement of State policy."

Deletion, or prefer:1bly clarification, is recollllllt'nded because tile
staff believes that the eomprehensi ve document entitled F'itwl
Report to the President and to the Congross of the United States
by the Nation:11 Water Commission, (June 1973) se,rvell as a
basic expression of proposed n:1tional policy fully as' wl'll as the
April 15, 1974, recommendations submitted to tilt' Govel'lIol' hy
the Governor's Water Resources Conservation and Development
Task Force serve as an expression of proposed State of Texas
policy. In fact. it would be desirable for the State and tht'
Arkansas-White-Red (AWR) Regional Sponsor to ('xj,rcHH tilt'll'
'position on those portions of the National Water Commission's
(NWC) Final Report having significant impacts on Texas. The
'following realistic guidance given on pages 10 and 11 of the said
Final Report is worthy of very careful consideration:

" Projections of the First National AsscRsnH'nt" arC'
based 'largcly on extensions of past trends. which may
not continue, especially if the Nation adopts policies
'recommended in this report. (Emphasis added. )

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