1. Advisory Committee on Water Information 2005 Interim Status September 14, 2005 USGS National Center Auditorium

3. National Water Quality Monitoring Council National Liaison Committee for NAWQA Subcommittee on Hydrology ٭ Subcommittee on Spatial Water Data Advisory Committee on Water Information Subgroups / Task Forces Methods and Data Comparability Board Subcommittee on Sedimentation Work Groups Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable 2004 Task Force on Cooperative Water Program Work Groups * Also reports to Federal Geographic Data Committee

4. National Water Quality Monitoring Council Work Groups National Water Quality Monitoring Council Water Information Strategies Methods And Data Comparability Board Collaboration and Outreach Watershed Components Interactions National Monitoring Network

5. National Water Quality Monitoring Council Work Groups National Water Quality Monitoring Network Steering Committee Network Design Inventory of Monitoring Methods and Data Comparability Data Management and Access

6. National Monitoring Network Develop a National Monitoring Network that coordinates and expands existing efforts, includes coverage in both coastal waters and the upland areas that affect them, and is linked to the Integrated Ocean Observing System.

7. Actions for ACWI National Water Quality Monitoring Network for U.S. Coast and Upland Watersheds  Concur with approach for project, including preliminary Network Design  Understand limitations of Report, Design and Network given time frame and limited resources  Accept outline for January Report to CEQ, SWAQ and ACWI  Provide any further comments in writing by October 15, 2005

8. National Water Quality Monitoring Council Work Groups National Water Quality Monitoring Council Water Information Strategies Methods And Data Comparability Board Collaboration and Outreach Watershed Components Interactions National Monitoring Network

9. Methods and Data Comparability Board Work Groups Biology and Microbiology Outreach and Publicity Water-Quality Data Elements Performance-Based Systems (PBS) National Environmental Methods Index (NEMI) Laboratory and Field Accreditation Nutrients New Technologies

10. Water Quality Data Elements Develop and recommend a core set of data elements for voluntarily reporting water quality monitoring results, to facilitate sharing of comparable data, while recognizing the objectives of individual programs.

11. Actions for ACWI Water Quality Data Elements (WQDE) and WQDE Guide  Approve revised biological data elements (toxicity, population)  Agree to publication of revised Guide as a Council Technical Report.

12. Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable Serves as a forum to share information and perspectives that will promote better decision making regarding the sustainable development of our Nation's water resources.

13. Actions for ACWI Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable Draft Preliminary Report  Agree to publication of this preliminary report by the U.S. Forest Service this fiscal year (i.e., would go to press September 30).  Provide comments on usefulness of information, and continuation of efforts on water sustainability criteria, indicators and research

14. 2004 Task Force on the USGS Cooperative Water Program Assess the effectiveness of USGS in addressing the recommendations of the 1999 Coop Review Task Force. Suggest continued actions to be taken by the USGS to more fully implement the recommendations of the 1999 Report.

15. Actions for ACWI 2004 Task Force to Review the USGS Cooperative Water Program - Draft Final Report  Approve report, with any caveats based on questions/comments  If required, provide any further comments in writing by October 15, 2005