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The Snake River resources review… one river, many voices

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1998-10

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Kidd, Deb, author
U.S. Committee on Irrigation and Drainage, publisher

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Through the Reclamation Act of 1902 the Reclamation Service, since renamed the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), was created to develop irrigation works for storage, delivery, and development of water. More recent legislation has placed additional requirements on Federal agencies, including Reclamation, to comply with specific environmental protection measures. Reclamation recognizes that salmon and other water-related resource needs require it to look at the way it will operate in the future. The SR3 Leadership Team has been tasked with developing the necessary technology to help decision makers assess the effects of potential operation decisions and better understand the trade-offs to the Snake River resources. Because SR3 is not a decision making process, its public outreach is not geared towards identifying and evaluating alternatives. Public involvement, in its traditional sense, is not a part of SR3. Public participation in SR3 is taking two basic forms; outreach to the interested public and participation by key stakeholders. The public outreach and stakeholder participation activities are uniquely designed to meet the needs of SR3. The SR3 Leadership Team adopted the Bleiker Systematic Development of Informed Consent (SDIC) methodology. SDIC is a methodology in which management tools are systematically applied to improve public agencies' implementation capabilities. During the first half of SR3, the SDIC methodology has served SR3 well. SR3's experience thus far has shown that reapplying the SDIC methodology at major transition points in the life cycle of a project is important. It is incumbent upon us to be knowledgeable of the different methodologies available, to select an appropriate methodology, and apply it properly. Productive stakeholder involvement does not happen by accident.

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Presented at River basin management to meet competing needs: proceedings from the USCID conference on shared rivers held on October 21-31, 1998 in Park City, Utah.

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