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. . 002429 Section III Department of Water Resources' Coordinated Statewide Planning Program This is the core of California's water planning. To fu If ill its objectives (stated On page 8), the Coordinated Statewide Planning Program does the following: (1) Determines statewide availability and demand for present and future water supplies for all beneficial purposes; (2) Evaluates timing and sequence for optimum develop- ment of new supplies to most efficiently meet future needs; (3) Coordinates thes e and related study activities with Statewide and regional planning and developments of other agencies to avoid conflict, overlap, or duplica- tion and to maximize the contribution of water agencies at all government levels. This function was handled by the Planning Investigations Section of DWR's Division of Resources Planning prior to July 1965. It is now a function of Statewide Planning Office. It grew out of earlier Staging and Program- ing Studies '1-nd the Central Valley Operation Studies, initiated in 1956 primarily as a guide to forecast annual funding requirements for the State project. The Legislature's Joint Interim Committee on State Water Problems had requested projections and long-range project staging for funding purposes about this same time. Needs for different studies and forecasts arose, resulting in the formation of the Coordinated Statewide Planning Program in July 1963. Specific continu ing objectives of the core planning are: (1) Determines the quantity and quality of water resources, present water uses, projected future water demands, and the resulting present and projected surplus or defi- ciencies in available water supplies within each of the watersheds of the State, including appropriate subdivi- sions thereof. (2) Derives utilizing the preliminary information of the project formulat ion programs of both this Department 11