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Selecting a single Federal agency as decision maker would require Congressional action 

 to assign decisionmaking authority, and remove responsibility from the other two 

 agencies. 



3.3.1.4 Decisionmaking Option: Decisionmaking by a New Entity 



The third alternative would to establish a new decisionmaking body whose 

 membership would include representatives of all the various uses of the river. 

 Typically this group would take the form of a compact or commission. This body 

 would have to be Congressionally mandated. Congress could establish a group that 

 would take over the decisionmaking authority of the SOR lead agencies in regard to 

 river operations. 



Earlier in this document there was a discussion of alternative approaches used 

 elsewhere. Among those examples, the Ohio River Basin Commission is the closest 

 example of what this alternative might look like. 



There are several alternatives for how this body could be structured: 



• Federal /State Agencies Only 



A Board could be established that included representatives of all the relevant 

 Federal and state agencies. For example, representative of Bormeville, 

 Reclamation, and the Corps would be on the Board, possibly with additional 

 representation from the National Marine Fisheries Service and/or U.S. Fish & 

 Wildlife Service. Each state would also have a defmed number of agency 



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