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The members of the team were housed in a single office, with adequate 

 support staff. The then current managers of river operations were made 

 available to the team on an 'as needed" basis. (In the second year the first 

 team was joined by a new team, which occasionally sat in on meetings 

 about operations decisions as a way of increasing its knowledge of river 

 operations]. 



The year began with the publication of an aimual report which 

 summarized the past year's operations, the current and predicted water 

 conditions, and issues (such as new research about the linkages between 

 flows and fisheries). There was also an Annual Operations Symposium. 

 The symposium provided a more extended discussion of the information 

 in the report, followed by workshops during which participants had an 

 opportunity to prepare and submit Proposed Operations. All Proposed 

 Operations had to be submitted by a specific date (about 15 days after the 

 symposium), much like a contracting proposal, and had to contain specific 

 information, in order to be considered. 



One of the responsibilities of the five-agency team was to develop a 

 computerized model that would permit groups advocating an operation 

 to get a quick (in less than 15 minutes) statement of the potential 

 consequences of that proposal. Although this model was not available in 

 the first year, in subsequent years it was used in workshops during which 

 regional interests could try out "what if proposals before submitting their 

 actual Proposed Operations. 



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