Participants:

Issues Discussed: Major Needs of the Committee

• Clearinghouse
• Geospatial One-Stop
• Web Services

Federal Agencies will be challenged on infrastructure consolidation.

Federal Enterprise Architecture - Each agency has its own architecture that meets Federal requirements. Geospatial One-stop may not meet these needs.

Tod Dabolt - What are the roles of various datasets in meeting business needs?

David Wells - Many agencies do not know what their data needs are.

Are the benefits so great that they don't need to come to the table or vice versa?

Form "partnerships" with groups.

Mac McKee - In the research community there are people... ie. National Institute of Water Resources. National Water Quality Monitoring Council - get someone who knows about water quality to respond.

David Wells - Get tribes involved. This might be a good way to get locals involved.

Quarterly Meetings:

• Identify participants outside of Feds
• UCOWR has folks in Washington on a regular basis that could participate

Do we hard schedule meetings?

• Mac commented that he is here around the first of March every year.
• CUAHSI folks are in the area
• NIWR
• Involve AWRA - has a large private sector contingent
• Involve the Hydrology Subcommittee
• Ross Braun noted that USDA has offices in Beltsville

Ross Braun, USDA, also suggested the option of conducting meetings