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• PARTICIPATION: Since the ultimate issue is how decisions are made, and 

 which uses are affected, all parties must have access to the decisionmaking 

 process if the Forum has any hope of legitimacy. To be credible, the Forum 

 must ensure that: 



- All parties are "at the table", whatever the table looks like. 



- The costs of participating in the decision are not so high that some groups 

 (uses) are placed at a significant disadvantage. 



- The technical analysis upon which decisions are based is not biased in 

 favor of some of the uses, and is viewed as objective and adequate by all 

 the major parties. 



• VISIBILITY: The Forum must ensure that decisions are arrived at in a way 

 that provides visibility to how and why the decision was made. Decisions 

 must be made in the "sunshine glare" of a full public process. 



• INTERACTION: The Forum must provide a setting in which the parties talk 

 to each other, not just to the SOR lead agencies. This kind of interaction 

 would be helpful in building a consensus. 



• TIMELINESS: The Forum must be able to make decisions in a timely manner 

 to meet the real-time demands of river operations. 



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