Withdrawal program study
Subtitle: Colorado State Office
Publisher: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management]
Published: 1972
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified
Language: eng
Subjects: Water withdrawals; Real property; Government policy; Water-power; Water resources development
Work titles: Waterpower withdrawals
Description: The program study emphasizes the fact that the withdrawal program includes not only the congressionally mandated withdrawal review function, but also the ongoing withdrawal processing function.  The organizational structure of the withdrawal review program varies with each State; however, the program is generally considered to be centralized in most State Offices, including Colorado.  In Colorado as in most States, the field examinations and field reports are normally accomplished at the District and Resource Area levels, whereas the program coordination, budget, adjudication, and centralized nature of the program and considering the high cost of staffing the Districts and resource area Offices to assume additional responsibilities, the Study Team concluded that further decentralization to the districts and resource Areas would only lover program efficiency.