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<br />This general summary, both narrative and statistical, outlines the
<br />formal conclusions and recommendations which will be incorporated
<br />in the National Assessment report.
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<br />Funds for performing the Assessment work in the Arkansas-White-
<br />Red Region have been furnished to the Regional Sponsor by the Water
<br />Resources Council through a Memorandum of Agreement approved April 18,
<br />1975, and by three supplemental agreements approved November 19, 1975,
<br />March 29, 1976, and February 9, 1977. The funds have been distributed
<br />to the eight member States through agreements between the States, the
<br />Federal Agencies, and the Regional Study Director's office as agreed to
<br />by AWRBlAC. The financial accounting of the obligation and expenditures
<br />of the assessment funds has been maintained by the Regional Finance
<br />Officer of the Bureau of Reclamation, Amarillo, Texas.
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<br />The Regional Sponsor has delegated performance of the assessment
<br />work to its Comprehensive Planning Committee, formerly the Ad Hoc
<br />Assessment Committee, working through a Regional Study Director as
<br />provided in the Memorandum of Agreement. The actual work has been
<br />performed largely by representatives of the eight States of the Region
<br />and the Reg~o~al Study Director, with representatives of the Federal
<br />agencies offering data, suggestions, counseling, and reviewing report
<br />drafts. But collectively, however, the Comprehensive Planning Committee
<br />on behalf of the whole Committee reviews and approves the reports which
<br />are submitted to WRC as fulfillment of the Memorandum of Agreement.
<br />This process, coupled with reviews by public participants selected by
<br />the States, hopefully portrays a State-Regional point of view.
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<br />Seven aggregated sub-areas (ASA's) have been defined by WRC for
<br />the AWR Region. These ASA's are identified by county lines and encom-
<br />pass a total area of 241,000 square miles in the eight states of Arkansas,
<br />Colorado, Kansas, Louiaiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas,
<br />aa shown on plate I. In contrast the drainage area totals 265,000
<br />square miles, excluding portions of the drainage areas of the Arkansas-
<br />White-Red rivers which have been included by WRC in the Lower Mississippi
<br />Region. The total drainage area of these three rivers is 282,000 square
<br />miles.
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<br />With exception of the White River, which drains part of the Ozark
<br />Plateau in the northeast portion of the Region, the rivers originate
<br />on eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains or on the High Plains of Colorado,
<br />New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. The high plains of Kansas, --
<br />Oklahoma, and Texas, and the central lowlands of Missouri, Arkansas, and
<br />Louisiana produce- a significant share of the Nation's livestock, grains,
<br />petroleum and gas.
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