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-33- WILLIAM T. DA VOREN THE GOAL AND ELEMENTS OF THE STUDY The primary goal of the comprehensive study is to determine future needs of the Pacific Southwest for water and water-related lands, then compare these needs to available resources, and de- velop general plans to meet the projected needs. The six basic elements of the study are; I. A projection of economic development to 1980,2000 and 2020; 2. A translation of economic projection into demands for water and related land re- sources; 3. An inventory and projection of water availability, both surface and groundwater, both quantity and quality; 4. An inventory and projection of land availability; 5. An outline of related water and land resource problems; 6. An outline of general approaces - framework plans - to solve these problems and to guide the region's future water and land development. PRESENT AND FUTURE NEEDS All the present and foreseeable uses of water and related lands of the Pacific Southwest will be analyzed. The regional summary report and the sub-regional studies will not propose specific pro- jects. However they will be in sufficient detail to serve as a rough blueprint for evaluating the inter-re- lationships of future projects and resource developments of the region. The study will cover only the lands and waters within the Pacific Southwest and transfers of water between its sub-regions. It will also tabulate water now being exported from or imported to the region under existing compacts. Similar Type I studies in adjacent regions will do likewise. Although specific water sources outside of the region will not be studied, the summary report will evaluate the impact of additions to the region's basic supply. THE STUDY TEAM The U.S. Water Resources Council (WRC) directed the Pacific Southwest Inter-Agency Com- mittee (PSIAC) to conduct the Pacific Southwest Type I studies in October of 1966. The first year of the five-year study schedule was spent coordinating budgets and organizing the far-flund work pro- gram that now involves hundreds of specialists in nine states. The estimated Federal cost of the studies is more than $10 million. I'n addition, State and in- terstate agencies are contributing substantial amounts by participating in the study work groups - in some instances leading them. The parent organization, PSIAC, is the only region-wide Federal-State water organization. It was established in 1955. By Executive Order of President Johnson in 1966 it became a field commit- tee of the Council, and has the same Federal membership as the Council. These Federal departments are: Agriculture * Army * Health, Education & Welfare * Housing and Urban Development * Interior * Labor * Transportation * Federal Power Commission * The State membership is; Arizona * California * Colorado * Idaho * Nevada * New Mexico * Oregon * Utah * Wyoming