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UMRBA Publications and Policies
UMRBA
publications include published reports, position statements,
resolutions, letters of comment, and Congressional testimony. Paper copies of some
online documents may be available. Please contact the UMRBA office
(651-224-2880) for further information or send requests to Margie
Daniels mdaniels@umrba.org.
(A fee for copying and shipping may apply.)
River Management and
Institutions
Upper Mississippi River Basin Association 2013-17 Strategic Plan
(January 2013)
PDF (7 MB)
Comments on the Missouri River Authorized
Purposes Study (MRAPS) March 4, 2011 draft Scoping Summary Report
(April 27, 2011)
PDF (6.4 MB)
Comments on the Missouri River Authorized
Purposes Study (MRAPS) scoping effort (September 17, 2010)
PDF
Comments on Corps of Engineers' draft
Operational Model for the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway
System River Council (January 20, 2006)
PDF
Comments on Corps of Engineers' concept paper
"Modified Institutional Arrangements for the Upper Mississippi River
System" (June 13, 2005)
PDF
Joint
Governors' Proclamation on Upper Mississippi River System Management
(April 1997) PDF
Forging a New Framework for the Future:
A Report to the Governors on State and Federal Management of
the Upper Mississippi River (1995)
PDF (2.2MB)
Management of the Upper Mississippi River
Basin: Current Issues and Future
Options (1994) PDF (6.6 MB)
Alternative Mechanisms for Formulating an Ecosystem Management
Strategy for the Upper Mississippi River (1994)
PDF
The Upper Mississippi River Basin Charter: A Strategy for
Protection of the Region's Water Resources - A Report to the Governors
of the Upper Mississippi River Basin States (1989)
PDF
(1.2 MB)
USACE Navigation and Ecosystem Programs
Letter re May 15, 2011 draft Reach Planning
After Action Report (AAR) (August 15, 2011)
PDF
Letter re April 5, 2011 draft Reach Planning
After Action Report (AAR) (May 3, 2011)
PDF
Letter re System Objectives Report and the
2010 Floodplain Reach Plans for ecosystem restoration on the Upper
Mississippi River System (April 5, 2011)
PDF
Letter re Lock Sequencing under NESP (October
25, 2010)
PDF
Letter re Inland Marine Transportation System
Capital Investment Strategy Team Recommendations (July 2, 2010)
PDF
(NOTE: Similar letter sent to Director of OMB
and Congress.)
Letter re Inland Waterways Trust Fund (IWTF)
and Navigation Ecosystem Sustainability Program (NESP) (November 24,
2009)
PDF
(NOTE: Similar letter sent to Director of OMB
and Congress.)
Examining Biological Indicators for the Upper Mississippi River:
Applications in Clean Water Act & Ecosystem Restoration Programs
Workshop (July 2009)
PDF (2.3MB)
Letter re NESP Implementation Report to Congress (July 15, 2009)
PDF
Comments on NESP-EMP Transition Plan (June 9, 2009)
PDF
Comments on NESP Advisory Panel Recommendations (March
2, 2009)
PDF
Ecosystem Restoration and the Clean Water Act
on the Upper Mississippi River: Workshops to Explore Policy
and Practice Interfaces (September 2008)
PDF
Comments on Draft NESP Implementation Guidance
(April 18, 2008) PDF
Integrating NESP and EMP: A UMRBA Vision
for the Future of Ecosystem Restoration on the Upper Mississippi
River System (November 13, 2007)
PDF
Comments on Corps of Engineers August 14, 2007
draft Interim Report of the "Re-evaluation of the Recommended Plan:
UMR-IWW System Navigation Study" (September 20, 2007)
PDF
Letter
to OMB Regarding Navigation (February 28, 2006)
PDF
Comments on River
Council Operational Model (January 20, 2006)
PDF
Joint
Letter on 2005 Water Resources Development Act with Audubon and MARC
2000 (September 26, 2005) PDF
Joint
Press Release on 2005 Water Resources Development Act with Audubon and
MARC 2000 (September 23, 2005) PDF
Joint
Governors' Letter to Congressional Committee Leaders regarding WRDA
authorization (March 10, 2005)
PDF
Comments
on WRDA 2004 provisions regarding Navigation Capacity Improvements and
Ecosystem Restoration for the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois
Waterway System (Section 2124 of S. 2773) (August 30, 2004)
Comments on the Draft Integrated Feasibility
Report and Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the
UMR-IWW System Navigation Feasibility Study (July 16, 2004)
PDF
Joint
Governors' Statement on the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway
System Navigation Feasibility Study (July 2004)
PDF
Testimony
at House Water Resources Subcommittee Hearing (June 24, 2004)
Testimony
for Senate Hearing in preparation for WRDA 2004 (March 31, 2004)
Comments
on Draft Memorandum of Record regarding Ecosystem Restoration Cost
Sharing Options (July 11, 2003)
Comments
on the May 10, 2002 Draft Interim Report for the Upper Mississippi
River and Illinois Waterways Restructured System Navigation
Feasibility Study (May 30, 2002)
PDF
States'
Perspectives on Refocused UMRS Navigation Study (February 27, 2002)
Water Resources Planning
Comments
on the Proposed National Objectives, Principles and Standards for
Water and Related Resources Implementation Studies (March 30, 2010)
PDF
Water Quality
2012 Water Quality Program Report:
Protecting Water Quality Through Interstate Cooperation (November 13, 2012)
PDF
Upper Mississippi River Aquatic Life Designated Uses:
Improving Protection Under the Clean Water Act (February 2012)
- Full Report
PDF
(4.1 MB)
- Summary
Flier
PDF
2011 Water Quality Program Report:
Protecting Water Quality Through Interstate Cooperation (November 4, 2011)
PDF
Upper Mississippi River Clean Water Act Biological Assessment
Implementation Guidance (September 2011)
- Full Report
PDF
(2.2 MB)
- Summary
Flyer
PDF
Upper Mississippi River Nutrient Monitoring,
Occurrence, and Local Impacts: A Clean Water Act Perspective
(September 2011)
- Full
Report
PDF (6.4MB)
- Summary
Flyer
PDF
Addressing
Nutrient-Related Water Quality Impacts on the Upper Mississippi
River: Clean Water Act Approaches, Conservation Efforts, and
Collaboration Opportunities (September 2011)
PDF
Upper Mississippi River Basin Water
Quality-Related Science Needs (March 3, 2011)
PDF
Letter to U.S. EPA Region 7 Administrator
Brooks Regarding Water Quality Collaboration and Priorities
(February 22, 2011)
PDF
Comments on Mississippi River Arsenic Total
Maximum Daily Load (May 28, 2010)
PDF
2009 Water Quality Program Report:
Protecting Water Quality Through Interstate Cooperation (August
2009)
PDF
Examining Biological Indicators for the Upper Mississippi River:
Applications in Clean Water Act & Ecosystem Restoration Programs
Workshop (July 2009)
PDF (2.3MB)
Comments on 2009-2014 U.S. EPA Strategic
Plan Change Document (November 26, 2008)
PDF
Ecosystem Restoration and the Clean Water Act
on the Upper Mississippi River: Workshops to Explore Policy
and Practice Interfaces (September 2008)
PDF
UMRBA Perspectives on Hypoxia Operating Plan
and Federal Strategy for Clean Water Act Implementation (September
8, 2008) PDF
Upper Mississippi River Basin States CWP
Cooperator's Roundtable Summary (November 1-2, 2007)
PDF
UMRBA Comments on the Draft 2008 Gulf Hypoxia
Action Plan (December 31, 2007)
PDF
UMRBA Response to National Research Council
Report Regarding the Mississippi River and the Clean Water Act
(December 13, 2007) PDF
2007 Water Quality Program Report:
Protecting Water Quality Through Interstate Cooperation (October
2007)
PDF
Joint Governors' Statement on Water Quality
Protection for the Mississippi River (August 2, 2007)
PDF
Issue Paper: Sediment-Related Water Quality Criteria for the
Upper Mississippi River (February 2007)
PDF
Charter of the Upper Mississippi River Basin
Association Water Quality Executive Committee
(November 15, 2006)
PDF
Organizational Options for Interstate
Water Quality Management on the Upper Mississippi River
(December 2006)
PDF
Upper Mississippi River Fish Consumption
Advisories: State Approaches to Issuing and Using Fish
Consumption Advisories on the Upper Mississippi River (2005)
PDF
Upper Mississippi River Water
Quality: The States' Approaches to Clean Water Act Monitoring,
Assessment, and Impairment Decisions (2004)
PDF
(3.1 MB)
Memorandum of Understanding:
Interstate Assessment Reaches for
Upper Mississippi River
Water Quality Reporting (September 2003)
PDF
Statement
on the Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act, H.R. 961
(September 23, 2003)
Comments
on the Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act, H.R. 3480
(February 27, 2002)
Comments
on the Upper Mississippi River Basin Conservation Act, H.R. 1800
(August 7, 2001)
Comments on Draft Action Plan for Reducing, Mitigating, and Controlling
Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
(August 31, 2000) PDF
Comments on Upper Mississippi River Basin Sediment and Nutrient Study
authorization in the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 (August 24, 2000)
PDF
Comments on the Upper Mississippi River Basin Conservation Act, H.R. 4013 (July 12, 2000)
Comments on Proposed Revisions to the Water Quality Planning and
Management Regulation
(January 14, 2000)
Comments on Integrated Assessment of the Causes and Consequences of
Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico
(December 17, 1999) PDF
Report of the 1993 Flood-Related Water Quality Monitoring Workshop
(1995) PDF
Upper Mississippi River Water Quality Initiative: Report of the Toxic Pollution
Workshop (1993) PDF
Upper Mississippi River Water Quality Initiative: Report of the Sedimentation
Workshop (1993) PDF
How Clean is the River? An
Examination of the Water Quality of the Upper Mississippi River
(1989) PDF (4.2 MB)
Hazardous Spills
Environmental Response Fact Sheets
- Shorelines
PDF
- Species
PDF
Inland Response Tactics Manual (August 2010) PDF
Pilot Monitoring Station at Lock & Dam 15: Project Evaluation
Report (June 2007) PDF
Net Environmental Benefits Analysis,
Upper Mississippi River, Pool 12 (June 2006)
PDF
Upper Mississippi River Spill Response
Plan and Resource Manual (Public Access Version)
PDF (1.2MB)
Position of the UMRBA on Flood Response and
Recovery in the Wake of the 2008 Flooding
—
An Update to UMRBA's 1993 Flood Statement (September 17, 2008)
Comments
on the May 2006 Public Review Draft of the Upper Mississippi River
Comprehensive Plan (July 14, 2006)
PDF
Comments
Regarding Emergency Action Plan Evaluation in Upper Mississippi River
Comprehensive Plan (May 25, 2005)
Position
Regarding Upper Mississippi River Comprehensive Plan (May 14,
2003)
Comments
on draft Project Management Plan for the Upper Mississippi River
Comprehensive Plan (August 22, 2002)
PDF
Comments
on Flood Loss Reduction Act of 2001, H.R. 2021 (August 22, 2001)
Resolution Requesting Reconsideration by the Federal Emergency Management
Agency of the Interpretation of the Term “Structure” (December 11, 1998)
Comments on the Army Corps of Engineers’ March 1995 draft Floodplain
Management Assessment
(May 25, 1995) PDF
Comments on the Draft Report of the Interagency Floodplain Management
Review Committee (June 6,
1994)
PDF
Position on Flood Response and Recovery after the 1993 Flood (September 1, 1993, with addenda)
Water Supply and Diversions
Upper Mississippi River Basin States CWP
Cooperator's Roundtable Summary (November 1-2, 2007)
PDF
Resolution
Regarding NEPA-Related Activities Associated with Devils Lake Project (May 13, 1998)
Resolution
Regarding Devils Lake Outlet and Inlet (September 24, 1997)
The Upper Mississippi River Basin Charter: Principles for the Management
of Upper Mississippi River Basin Water Resources and Notification and
Consultation Process Guidelines (1989)
PDF
Commercial Navigation
Letter re Inland Marine Transportation System
Capital Investment Strategy Team Recommendations (July 2, 2010)
PDF
(NOTE: Similar letter sent to Director of OMB
and Congress.)
Letter re Inland Waterways Trust Fund (IWTF)
and Navigation Ecosystem Sustainability Program (NESP) (November 24,
2009)
PDF
(NOTE: Similar letter sent to Director of OMB
and Congress.)
Resolution Opposing Proposed Increases in the Inland Waterways Fuel
Tax and Supporting Justified Infrastructure Investment (December 11, 1998)
Invasive Species
Comments on the Great Lakes and Mississippi
River Interbasin Study (GLMRIS) scoping effort (March 30, 2011)
PDF
Resolution
Regarding Ballast Water Management Policy
(August 7, 2001)
Nonfederal Hydroelectric Development and
Licensing: A Perspective from the Upper
Mississippi River Basin (1991)
PDF (2.0 MB)
Missouri River
Comments on the Missouri River Authorized
Purposes Study (MRAPS) March 4, 2011 draft Scoping Summary Report
(April 27, 2011)
PDF
Comments on the Missouri River Authorized
Purposes Study (MRAPS) scoping effort (September 17, 2010)
PDF
Resolution
Regarding NEPA-Related Activities Associated with Devils Lake Project (May 13, 1998)
Resolution
Regarding Devils Lake Outlet and Inlet (September 24, 1997)
Acronyms
List of commonly used acronyms on the Upper
Mississippi River (November 13, 2012)
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