# Presentation: 754543

## Actions 2003

**Data call re Water Programs:**
**Send out water program tables and summary trend line graphs to all ACWI reps**
**Work with other water-related Fed’l. agencies to expand data set**
**Work with OMB to review and refine data set and analysis**
**Action: USGS – Johnson**

## Actions 2003

**USGS Competition Memo:**
**ACWI members have 4 weeks to provide written/email comments on the USGS Competition Memo:**
**Due COB October 6, 2003**
**Via email Jpeters@USGS.gov**
**or Fax 703-648-5644**
**Action: ACWI Reps**

## Actions 2003

**Actions re 2004 Review of USGS Cooperative  Water Program:**
**Agreed to conduct review of implementation of COOP recommendations to start January 2004.**
**Formed ACWI Steering Committee: **
**Plan review, develop Terms of Reference, and recommend member organizations**
**5 Volunteers: NGWA, AWWA, AASG, ASIWPCA, WSWC)**
**Sunset after completion of planning process**
**Action: Above ACWI Reps**

## Actions 2003

**Actions re 2004 Review of USGS Cooperative  Water Program:**
**Send out via email to ACWI reps on Steering Committee:**
** ****Report of previous COOP Review**
**Secretary’s Letter on Implementation**
**Suggested outline of process**
**Action: USGS - Peters**

## Actions 2003

**Actions re Subcommittee on Sediment:**
**Agreed to accept SOS as subgroup under ACWI.  **
**Approved Terms of Reference for SOS with no dissension.**
**Provide expressions of interest in the SOS to:**
- _[gglysson@usgs.gov ](mailto:gglysson@usgs.gov)__or Fax to 703-648-5644   _
**Action: All ACWI Reps**

## Actions 2003

**Actions re Streamgaging Task Force**
**Approved Task Force Report as written with no dissent.**
**Letter to be prepared for Secretary of Interior, (****co-signed by USGS & Stiles as nonFed co-chair):**
**Endorse Task Force Report**
**Highlight key recommendations**
**Encourage OFA’s to continue support of**
**	****the streamgaging network**
**Request letter to be sent to other Feds**
**Action: USGS – Johnson w/Yorke and Stiles (TF Chairs)**

## Actions 2003

**Actions re Streamgaging Task Force:**
**All ACWI Federal Agencies encouraged to continue their support for the Streamgaging network.**
**All ACWI non-Federal member organizations encouraged to recommend to other Feds to continue funding for their stations in the network.**
**Action: USGS – Johnson and All ACWI member organizations.**

## Actions 2003

**Actions re Methods Board:**
**Letters being prepared, asking ACWI Federal agencies to implement approved recommendations, including:**
**Nat’l.Environmental Methods Index**
**Laboratory Accreditation**
**Copies will be sent to ACWI members**
**Action: EPA – Brass, Johnson and All ACWI member organizations.**

## Actions 2003

**Actions re Methods Board:**
**Report on Chemical Oxygen Demand, to be published in the Council’s Technical Report Series, to be sent out to ACWI member organizations for review & comment by email:**
**Copies distributed at meeting**
**Will forward electronically by Sept. 15**
**Comments due by COB Oct 15, 2003**
**Action: EPA – Brass; All ACWI member organizations.**

## Actions 2003

**Actions re Sustainable Water **
**Resources Roundtable (SWRR):**
**Revised Terms of Reference approved, with two clarifications:**
**Item III.D. re Role of Co-Chairs re Budget &**
**   ****revised consistent with FACA**
**Item III.A. re Participation, add “local” to agencies and clarify “individuals.”**
**Action: Smith w/Johnson**
**Revised Terms to be posted on ACWI Web site.**

## Actions 2003

**Actions re Ad Hoc TMDL Conference:**
**Sunset ACWI Ad Hoc Subcommittee on TMDL Science and Policy Conference. **
**ACWI Member organizations encouraged to continue to support the annual TMDL Science Conference, co-chaired by WEF and ASIWPCA.**
**Conference will likely be continued as**
**	****WEF biennial Technical Conference **
**Action: USGS – Johnson w/WEF - O’Neill.**

## Actions 2003

**Actions re Spatial Water Data Com:**
**Geospatial One-Stop’s Geodata.gov web site**
**What ACWI role re populating data layers?**
**Members’ concerned re water security and web server vulnerability.**
**SSWD to provide further information to ACWI member organizations regarding underlying philosophy, and access layers.**
**Action:USGS-Pierce **
**Interested members: All, esp. AWWA, WEF, AMWA, ACC, WSWC.**

## Actions 2003

**Recommendations of the 2002 AWRA**
**Water Resources Policy Dialog:**
**Individual Member Organizations of ACWI are encouraged to write letters in support of the importance and need for continued **
**	****Water Policy Dialogs:**
**To AWRA **
**	****[Attn: Dick Engberg, AWRA, **
**	****4 W. Federal St., P.O. Box 1626,**
**	****Middleburg, VA  20118-1626]****	**
**To their members and constituents**
**Action: All ACWI Member Organizations**
**Next Dialog, Feb 2005, Tucson, AZ**

## Actions 2003

**ACWI members will receive notice of**

## Actions 2003

**Future ACWI Agenda Items (suggested by):**
**Pharmaceuticals (Hart-ESA)**
**Antibiotics,Endocrine Compounds (Masters-NWGA)**
**Study on Underground Injection & State Funding Needs on Ground Water Quality Monitoring (Paque-GWPC)**
**Wetlands, esp. coastal (Walker-LWV)**
**Water Use Data/Anal. (Lant-UCOWR)**
**Nutrients (Good-ASIWPCA)**
**NOTE: To be continued from ACWI minutes.**
**Action: Johnson (w/members)**

## Actions 2003

**Future issues for consideration of Monitoring Council:**
**Nutrient Standards (Good-ASIWPCA)**
**Approach to collect appropriate data on Rivers [e.g., Frequency, Integration of Biology] (Lant-UCOWR)**
**Note: To be continued from ACWI minutes**
**Action: Mallard/Spooner **
**	****	****	****(Council Co-Chairs)**

## Actions 2003

**ACWI Member Organizations Brainstorm Key Issues [one example]:**
**Need to know what information is needed to measure progress and success for “Adaptive Management”**
**NOTE: To be continued from ACWI minutes.**
**Action: USGS in setting agenda**
**All ACWI Member Organizations in forming and participating in agenda**

## Actions 2003

**Upcoming Meetings:**
** ****ASIWPCA Nov 21 on Atmospheric Dep. email: **_[nleblanc@hrsd.com](mailto:nleblanc@hrsd.com)__ _
** ****NGWA Oct in MN on Pharmaceuticals email: **_[mike@gwpc.org](mailto:mike@gwpc.org)_
**USGS: Water 2025 Science & Technical Workshop, **
**	****Nov 4, Denver, CO email: **
**	**_[jgpeters@usgs.gov](mailto:jgpeters@usgs.gov)_
**Others?**
**	****NOTE: USGS will maintain water-related meetings of interest on ACWI web site and feature notices in “What’s New”**
**Action: All ACWI Members – notify us of your upcoming meetings – email: **_[kimmartz@usgs.gov](mailto:kimmartz@usgs.gov)_

## Actions 2003

**Place ACWI 2003 Action Items and Final Agenda on Web Site by COB Sept 19**
- _[http://water.usgs.gov/wicp/acwi/acwi2003](http://water.usgs.gov/wicp/acwi/acwi2003)_
**Action: USGS – Johnson/Lewis**

## Actions 2003

**Next Meeting:**
**ACWI is now a Presidential Committee**
**	****(renewable every 2 yrs, as long as OMB Memo M-92-01 remains valid)**
**Membership approved for 4-year term thru Aug 2007**
**Feds request key actions and key issues Day 1 following roundtable, even if return to more detailed subgroup presentations.**

## Actions 2003

**Next Meeting:**
**Cannot return to April ‘04, due to National Monitoring Conference in **
**	****May ‘04 (major ACWI sponsorship).**
**Consider one-day focused/intensive meeting in Feb/Mar ‘04 **
**Propose ACWI 2004 Annual meeting in Sept ‘04**