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.00242~ . . Section II Department of Water Resources' Process of Planning "... to develop and maintain the plans which will enable the Department to effectively gu ide the development of California's water resources. tt This objective was defined by a Planning Management Task Force estab- lished early in 1964. Then came the task of tying the many DWR programs into a single process -- a planning package, a framework. The Activity Process chart (Figure 1, next page) is the framework devel- oped by the Task Force, It serves as a basis for developing revised budget categories for DWR's planning program. Benefits of it include (1) ease in explaining DWR's planning program to budget makers and reviewers; (2) clarification of the relationship of planning programs to each other; (3) management control of timeliness and scope; (4) a framework for eval- uating water-related proposals. In sum this means all levels of manage- ment are aware of the necessity and priority of programs and the objectives and inte' r'relat ionships of the total planning effort. The activity proces s aims at integrating the overall physical plan for water resource develop- ment in California, regardless of the constructing or operating agency of any single project. A project is defined as "any physical and/or opera- tional change aimed at meeting the water-related demands in California." This includes operational plans for managing a ground water basin; for example, or a barrier to seawater intrusion, or any combination of sev- eral project features. The chart divides the activity process into four major divis ions: (1) Planning, (2) Implement ion, (3) Design and Construction, and (4) Opera- tions. The various planning segments are shown as boxes. Arrows not only show a generalized flow of the planning process -- but are also the "products" of the box each flows f'rom. There is a "continuous feedback" of information during the entire process that is not depicted. Data collection, resource surveys, and determination of future water requirements (the top three boxes) may be accomplished by any of or it combination of a number of agencies such as the State, a Federal agency, a local agency, or a private engineer as is the case with respect to the three levels of investigation - - prel iminary examination, reconnaissanc e, and feasibility. All of thes e different activities, it must be remembered, feed back and forth to DWR's Coordinated Statewide Planning function. This "core" planning activity -- labeled on the chart as Analysis of Future Demands and Resources, Studies of Integration of Projects with Present 6