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!' '0 r;" 5:) ) - I) J t '_1 Missouri River Basin Comprehensive Framework Studies Introduction STATUS This brochure summarizes the findings to date of the comprehensive framework study of the Missouri Basin being 'accomplished by the Standing Committee under the auspices of the Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee. The study has been in progress for five years and is now nearing completion. It is expected that an initial draft of the report and appendices will be available in about 60 days, with review of the draft and assembly of the final report being accomplished before the end of the year. INTER-AGENCY COMMITTEE To provide background information, the Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee was formed in 1945 after Congress adopted a comprehensive plan for water resource development for the Missouri River Basin. Its purpose has been to interchange information and coordinate the activities of the Federal and State agencies in the planning and development of water and related land resources throughout the basin. Committee membership con- sists of the Governors of the ten basin States - Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming; and representatives of seven Federal Departments - Army, Agri- culture, Comaerce, Health, Education and Welfare, Interior, Labor, and the Federal Power Commission. INITIATION OF STUDY Being closely in touch with the situation and recognizing the good working relations which had developed over the years, the Inter-Agency Committee, in February 1963, gave consideration to undertaking a compre- hensive study of the Missouri River Basin. After assessing the work in- volved and means of accomplishing it, the Inter-Agency Committee, in June 1964, created a Standing Committee on Comprehensive Basin Planning. It was their decision that the comprehensive study should be of framework scope to provide guidance for future multi-purpose development of the water and related land resources for the optimum, or best use, of these resources. This broad general program for development and use of the available resources will provide guidance to Federal, State, and local people to meet short and long term needs for the good of the people of the region and the Nation.