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<br />~- <br />"t <br />>Y <br />. <br /> <br />OOH:J <br /> <br />.. ,- --......... <br />;"'d~' <br />Oti3l1. <br />~ <br /> <br />"---'-, ..... <br />~dOO' <br />Otl:::JX' <br />.- <br /> <br />"'I(J::J<;J <br />Ol;l:ii)( <br /> <br />j' <br /> <br /> <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY <br /> <br />MISSOURI BASIN REGION <br /> <br />IN REPLY REFER TO: <br /> <br />MISSOURI BASIN FIELD COMMITTEE <br />FEDERAL BUILDING, P. Q. BOX 2530 <br />BILLINGS, MONTANA 59103 <br /> <br />February I, 1971 <br /> <br />Mr. W. Don Maughan <br />Executive Director <br />Water Resources Council <br />1025 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Suite 900 <br />Washinaton, D. C. 20005 <br /> <br />Dear Mr. Maughan: <br /> <br />Reference ia made to your letter of November 4, 1970, concerning the <br />Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee charter. Following are the views <br />and actions of MBIAC relating to charter revisions as expressed at the <br />l63rd meeting in Bismarck, North Dakota, December 10, 1970. <br /> <br />!he Committee ia in agreement that formal adoption of a revised charter <br />should await Council decision on repreoentation and participation ~ those <br />sgencies recently transferred from member Departments to the Environmental <br />Protection Agency end the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrstion, <br /> <br />The Committee requests the inclusion of specific mention of responsibility <br />for maintsining and updating the Missouri Basin Comprehensive Study es <br />worded under item 5(b)(2) of the original Committee draft &s follows: <br />"Prepare and keep up to date a comprehensive coordinatad joint plan for <br />Federal, State, Interstate, local and governmental development and manage- <br />ment of water and related land resources." This statemant together with <br />the general language proposed in the Council staff draft will serve to <br />clarify and continue this most important Committee function, as well as <br />establish flexibility in determining future activities. <br /> <br />The State members request that item 3(c), page 3 of the dreft of the <br />charter, be changed as follows: '~e State members of the Committee shall <br />be the Governors, their designated representatives or designees ss speci- <br />fied b7 Stete law. <br /> <br />!he MBIAC ~rusts that composition of the membership will be resolved in <br />the near future and that the specific request of the Committee and'the <br />request by the States will be acceptable. <br /> <br />Sincerely yours, <br /> <br /> <br />H(i~?~~ <br /> <br />Chairman, MBIAC, l'Y 1971 <br /> <br />cc: MBIAC Members and Alternates <br />lp"llc.'~"'. .'7'......~,~..1. .!,ci.....olI....t.... <br />