**Action Items**

**Advisory Committee on Water Information**

**January 18-19, 2006**

**Proposed ACWI Action** **-- Report on the Design of A National Water
Quality Monitoring Network**

**For U.S. Coastal Waters and their Tributaries**

The draft report was given to ACWI for review and comment on needed
revisions. The Steering Committee asked for ACWI approval of the Network
report or agreement on a plan to improve the report. Discuss next steps
for implementation. After discussion of the report, the Network
co-chairs requested ACWI approval of five points and a schedule for
finalizing the Network Report.

> **Motion:** Steven Heiskary
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> **Second:** Fred Bloetscher
>
> **ACWI Concurrence**
>
> **Motion approved**
>
> **Proposed Schedule for ACWI Comments on Network Report:**

-   Comments to Network Steering Committee are due in 3 weeks -- by
    2/10/06.

-   Each member organization should submit a single set of consolidated,
    consensus comments.

-   During this period, Steering Committee and USGS staff will work to
    improve the report, considering comments already received, fixing
    identified problems and passing through a publications editor.

-   ACWI comments will go to the Steering Committee for review. Response
    to ACWI is due March 10.

Send out updated Feedback to ACWI regarding the National Monitoring
Network handout

-   **Completed** -- 1/20/06 in email to ACWI with attachment

**2004 COOP Report --**

-   Approval of 2004 COOP Report as edited.

-   Sunset 2004 COOP Task Force.

> **Motion:** Emery Cleaves
>
> **Second:** Robert Masters
>
> **ACWI Concurrence**
>
> **Motion approved**

-   Glenn Patterson asked for Task Force member participation in a
    review of the Cooperative Water Program (CWP) five-year plan. Would
    members participate?

    -   Barney Austin (Western States Water Council), Sue Lowry
        (Interstate Council on Water Policy), and Fred Bloetscher
        (American Water Works Association), agreed individually, that
        they would help in such an effort.

**US EPA Update --**

-   Notify ACWI of Wadeable Streams report when it comes out in March
    2006.

**Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable (SWRR) --**

-   Copies of the Preliminary SWRR Report (approved ACWI 2005)
    distributed

-   Continue to complete, revise, and refine indicators for tracking
    sustainability of water resources

-   Increase representation on SWRR

**ACWI Vacancies --**

Requested recommendations for current ACWI vacancies (8); have received
3 suggestions, more are welcome.

**Subcommittee on Hydrology (SOH) --**

-   Requested ACWI approval of SOH plan to proceed with revision of
    Guidelines for Determining Flood Flow Frequency, Bulletin 17B of the
    Hydrology Subcommittee.

> **Motion:** Dave Carlton
>
> **Second:** Fred Bloetscher
>
> **ACWI Concurrence**
>
> **Motion approved**

**Subcommittee on Spatial Water Data**

-   Request for ACWI approval of SSWD co-chair

> **Motion:** Emery Cleaves
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> **Second:** David Hart
>
> **ACWI Concurrence**
>
> **Motion approved**

-   Request for ACWI approval of a management steering committee for the
    watershed boundary effort to help oversee the work being done and
    drive the job to completion.

> **Motion:** Emery Cleaves
>
> **Second:** Dave Carlton
>
> **ACWI Concurrence**
>
> **Motion approved**

**NAWQA National Liaison Committee (NLC)**

-   ACWI e-mail notification of new NAWQA publications

-   Send parking lot sealcoat (PAHs) fact sheet to ACWI members

-   Post NAWQA NLC meeting notes and updates to the NAWQA NLC Website
    under ACWI

**Proposed Subcommittee on Ground Water under ACWI --**

Agreement to work with National Ground Water Association (NGWA) to
develop a Charter and Terms of Reference for a possible ground water
subgroup under ACWI. Get input from the National Water Quality
Monitoring Council (NWQMC) -- Watershed Components Interactions (WCI)
Work Group, Chair, Mary Ambrose (note: this is not a Council
assignment). There was a proposal to discuss this in a breakout session
at the National Monitoring Conference in San Jose, California, May 2006.
Bob Schreiber can provide notes and a list of staff.

> **Motion:** Robert Masters
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> **Second:** Robert Schreiber
>
> **Motion tabled pending further development**

**Methods and Data Comparability Board**

-   Awaiting replacement of EPA co-chair, vacated with Herb Brass'
    retirement

-   Recruitment of new members (15-20 base) at National Monitoring
    Conference

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-   Discuss permanent home for NEMI. Do we continue NEMI as it is or do
    we involve some other agency or organization to take over?

-   Follow through with NEMI on:

    -   NEMI CRADA

    -   Publication of WQDE list and guide

    -   Other publications

**Next Meetings --**

-   Proposal to sponsor a half to full day WebEx session in
    Mid-September for focused interim status reports.

-   **2007 Annual Meeting** \-- Discussion on holding the meeting in
    January again next year. Is this a good time for everyone?

> **ACWI Concurrence**