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<br />-3- <br /> <br /> <br />OOfJ88t <br /> <br />o provide the potential for assessing regional economic <br />and environmental effects of implementing the plan, <br />effects not apparent through project-by-project <br />evaluation, <br /> <br />o inform Federal agencies, the Federal administration, <br />and the Congress of regional needs for program <br />budgeting and funding: <br /> <br />o communicate to State legislatures and administrations <br />the need for State and regional prOgrams: and <br /> <br />o assist Congress and the Federal Government in setting <br />regional priorities for budgeting and funding water <br />resources programs in the Missouri River Basin. <br /> <br />CONTINUOUS PLAHNING PROCBSS <br /> <br />The Commission's preparation and maintenance of the regional <br />plan follows a dynamic and continuous process, a process <br />necessitated by continually changing legal and institutional <br />structures, resource conditions, social values, and planning <br />information. Changes in the regional plan are introduced on a <br />regular and progressive basis. Information and recommendations <br />from regional planning studies, along with legal and policy <br />changes which affect natural resources planning, are continually <br />recorded and summarized. <br /> <br />The principal sources of planning information and bases for <br />change in the regional plan are: (1) water planning studies <br />conducted by each of the Commission member States: (2) federally <br />funded level B and special studies, especially the level B <br />studies already completed by the Commission for the Platte River <br />Basin in Nebraska the Yellowstone River Basin and adjacent coal <br />areas in Montana, wyoming, and North Dakota, the Upper Missouri <br />River Basin Level B Study, and the James River Basin Subregional <br />Analysis: (3) level C and other studies conducted by the <br />Commission's Federal member agencies: (4) the Commission's <br />continuing planning program: and (5) other relevant studies, <br />including those of private entities. <br /> <br />The basin is divided into eight subbasins, each one of which <br />is a distinct drainage area. The subbasins, which are shown on <br />figure 1, are the Upper Missouri, Yellowstone, Western Dakotas, <br />Eastern Dakotas, Platte-Niobrara, Middle Missouri, Kansas, and <br />