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The Status Summary DESCRIPTION The Status Summary portion of the State Water Plan will, contain a summary of existing and proposed water resoutc~s projects; This section will be limited to those plans and projects as developed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers" and U.S. Soil Conservation ServiCe. The Status Summary will be prepared in the detail' necessary to adequately define the plan of development, identify the primary benefici- .',' aries, estimate the costs of construction and operation and appraise the ability of the sponsors to meet the legal arid firiancial re- sponsibilities. If there is sufficient interest; information~ in this section c<;mld be expanded ata later date to include plans and projects other than those developed by the three major federal construction agencies. Three separate volumes of the Status Sum- mary will be prepared. The first volume will present summaries of proposed water re- sources development in Nebraska; the second will describe the existing water resources development; and the third w,ill summarize proposed and, existing water resources de- velopment in a volume suitable for mass distribution to the general public. Outlines for this portion of the State Water Plan are repro- duced as Part C of the Appendix. SCHEDULE Scheduled completion dates for the three volumes of the Status Summary are: ' Volume I-Proposed Development-Jan- uary, 1969 Volume II-Existing Development __Au- gust, 1970 Volume 111- Water Resources Develop- ment-December, 1970 PROGRESS TO DATE The first volume of the Status Summary is virtually completed. This volume is expected to be published by March 1969. Preparation of Volume 2 and Volume 3 has not begun. ,.REMAINING WORK With the first volume ri~aring completion, the remaining work involves the preparation and p'ublication of volumes 2 and 3. Volume 2' will require consid,erable staff time to collect facts on Nebraska's early p~ojectsand to up- date information concerning the various sponsoring o~ganizations of the-se projects. ,'" Special Recommendations DESCRIPTION This part of the State Water Plan provides a basis for the development of recommenda- tions for action on specific items. These recom- mendations for ~ction by the Legislature, Governor, and various units of government d~al..with the conservation, development, management and utilization of the state's water resources. It is intended that this portiOn of the State Water Plan remain flexible. Recommendations on specific work items will be developed as the need arises and fully co- ordinated with other facets of the Plan. A list of possible topics was prepared and sub- mitted to the Legislature in June 1967, with the awareness that it would be necessary to add and delete items as the general concepts 'of the Plan are formulated. ' , Preparation of these recommendations necessitates the study of the legal, engineer- ing, economic, and other technical aspects of the, item being considered. The development of each recommendation requires considerable consultation and review with experts in that particular field, in addition to the broad array of plan participants as noted in Chapter Three. SCHEDULE The following list includes topics for study as approved by the Commission. Completion dates shown are for those on which significant progress has been made. 14 ..