Texas Register, Volume 3, Number 1, Pages 1-31, January 3, 1978 Page: 5
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State Seed and Plant Board
For two-year terms to expire October 6, /79:
Dr. Morris E. Bloodworth801 North Rosemary
Bryan, Texas 77801
Douglas Conlee
1725 Royal Oaks .
Waco, Texas 76710
Dr. Bloodworth and Mr. Conlee are being reappointed.
Dr. Dwane Miller
5708 77th Street
Lubbock, Texas 79424
Dr. Miller is replacing Anson R. Bertrand of Lubbock, Lub-
bock County, whose term expired.
Doc. Nos. 777328 and 777374
Executive Orders
D.B. 10-B
Executive Order D.B. 10-A is amended to read as follows and
shall be designated D.B. 10-B.
WHEREAS, the State of Texas has completed and adopted a
State Water Plan for the development and use of its water
resources for beneficial purposes for present and future
generations; and
WHEREAS, the Texas Department of Water Resources is
presently carrying on extensive IWater Development
Board, Texas Water Rights Commission, and Texas Water
Quality Board are conducting effectively studies and in-
vestigations oriented toward updating and ultimately
amending the State Water Plan in accordance with
statutory procedures, and
IWHEREAS, the Senate of Texas, in S.R. 812, charged the
lieutenant governor with responsibility for creating regional
councils to work with state and local agencies involved in
water matters; and,l
WHEREAS, river authorities, local units of government, and
coalitions of local governmental units have developed plans
for water development for their own needs; and
WHEREAS, the course selected by the State of Texas for
developing its water resources must be rationally linked to
the demands for and development of other resources and
services; and
(WHEREAS, the federal government, long a major partici-
pant of public works investment, appears to be altering its
traditional role in support of water development, thus creat-
ing a need for strong state level action to meet these trends at
the federal level. At the same time, the state must pursue all
available courses to assure an equitable level of continued
federal participation.)
WHEREAS, the President of the United States has or-
dered the Office of Management and Budget to study all
federal responsibilities relating to the nation's natural
resources and the environment for the purpose of recom-
mending reorganization of those federal agencies in-Volume 3. Number 1., January 3, 1978
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valued with water resources development, if determined
tp be appropriate; and
WHEREAS, the President of the United States has also
directed the secretary of the Interior, as chairman of the
U.S. Water Resources Council, together with the Officee of
Management and Budget and the Council on Environmen.
tal Quality to conduct a comprehensive review of federal
water resources policy with the intent of instituting "eom.
prehensive reform of water resources policy with conser.
vation as its cornerstone." This Federal Water Resource
Policy Study has resulted in the creation of:tusk groups,
composed principally of federal agency employees, which
have prepared issue and option papers on such important
issues as (1) water resources planning and evaluation cri-
teria, (2) institutions and institutional arrangements, (3)
water conservation, (4) cost sharing, (5) federal reserved
water rights, (6) water quality, and (7) water resource
research; and
WHEREAS, state, regional, and local governments and
other entities responsible for providing an adequate sup-
ply of water for present and future generations in Texas
have not been allowed satisfactory involvement in the
above described federal activities, and the studies have
been carried out in such a manner that the review pro-
cedures may not protect the interests of the State of Texas;
and
WHEREAS, recommendations resulting from these
studies, if accepted by the President and implemented in
whole or in part by the federal government, could have a
significant and possible adverse impact on the future
social, economic, and environmental well-being of Texas,
thus creating the need for strong state-level action to
assure an appropriate equitable level of continued
federal participation in water resources development.
THEREFORE, because of my continuing Igrowingi concern
that Ithel maximum effective use be made of the vast plan-
ning effort presently underway to update and amend, as
necessary, the State Water Plan, the need for this plan-
ning program to be closely coordinated with related ac-
tivities by regional and local units of government and
with appropriate federal actions, the need to implement
this plan through a strong action program, and the urgent
need for effective input by the state in the reformulation of
federal procedures and the development of a national
water policy which may impact the state Ifor water
resource development that has been accomplished here in
Texas, and the urgent need to translate these plans and other
related activities into a strong action program coordinating
the efforts of the state and local levels of government with
appropriate federal actions, I am re-establishing Icreatingl
the Governor's Water Resource Conservation and Develop-
ment Task Force. IThis action is essential at this time as a
means of establishing priorities and focusing and channeling
the extensive plans and capabilities of state and local levels
of government to meet water needs throughout the state.I
The task force is hereby Iwill bel charged with the following
duties:
(1) Coordinate with and assist the governor and the
Texas Department of Water Resources in developing
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