WSP07112

• File Number: 8410.350
• Description: Basin Multistate Organizations - Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 1/1/1968
• Author: MBIAC
• Title: MBIAC Annual Progress Report - Fiscal Year 1968
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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MEETINGS IN FISCAL YEAR 1968

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150th.Meeting

Kansas was the host for the 150th meeti~ of the MisSouri Basin
Inter-Agency Committee which met in the Ramada Inn in Salina, Kansas,
on September 27 and 28, 1967. Agenda items are summarized below.

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Harrell F. Mosbaugh, representing the Department of the Interior,
serving as Chairman for the fifth term since inception of MBIAC,
discussed the origin and grovth of the MBIAC stressing its
accomplishments and recalled:

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Activities of the MBIAC During 150 Meetings

That Inter-Agency' s life is "a century and a half of progress in
resources management and development." He stressed the fact that
many of the problems brought to the Inter-Agency forum had been
extremely controversial and had run the gamut from problems of
basinvide importance to problems centered in a "potato patch"
on the banks of the Missouri at Pierre.

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That the Federal Inter-Agency River Basin Committee, created in
1943, in an effort to establish some mechanism for coordination
at the field level, had created the Missouri Basin Inter-Agency
Committee in March 1945. The first meeting of the Committee
vas held in Omaha, Nebraska, in July of 1945.

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That the Missouri River States Committee had been created prior
to the passage of the Flood Control Act of 1944 and paid tribute
to the members of that Committee and the work it had done over the
years. He recalled the Missouri. Basin Survey Commission created
by President Truman and other mechanisms established to assist in
the 'lork in the Missouri Basin. In 1954 the Federal Inter-Agency
Committee vas eliminated and in its place a ne'l Federal Inter-Agency
Committee on Water Resources was created. He mentioned subsequent
milestones such as the passage of P. L. 566, P. L. 732, and finally
the Water Resources Planning Act of 1965.

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That an attempt vas made by Senator Francis Case to give legal
stature to the Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee by legislation.
He noted the proposal at Colorado Springs, Colorado, in December 1962
that the Inter-Agency Committee consider a "Comprehensive Study of
the Missouri Basin." On June 17, 1964, in Billings, Montana, the
Committee Officially approved and entered upon this study. He indi-
cated that in about three years time this study 'lould be completed
and it would no doubt provide ne'l direction for the coordinated
attack on the opportunities and problems associated with water resource

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