PUBLICATION--Earlier Review of Reports by the Office of Surface Water In Reply Refer To: WGS-Mail Stop 415 July 25, 1990 OFFICE OF SURFACE WATER TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM NO. 90.17 Subject: PUBLICATION--Earlier Review of Reports by the Office of Surface Water As you may be aware, the Office of Surface Water (OSW) reviews nearly every report produced by the Water Resources Division that deals in any significant way with surface-water matters. Sometimes it is frustrating to the author(s) or District when a report very close to Director's approval is returned by the OSW for technical reasons. To alleviate this problem, it has been and remains the policy of the OSW to make a technical review of a manuscript at the colleague-review stage, if requested by the originating office. The proper channel to request a technical review is to contact the Chief of OSW, or his assistant. As is usually the case in the Division review process, if the manuscript is editorially unacceptable or contains numerous data inconsistencies, it will be returned without review. Assignment of the reviewer will be made by the Chief, with consideration of the requesting office's preferences. The OSW is not soliciting colleague review involvement, and in fact, could not accommodate such review of all surface-water related reports of the Division. We ask, therefore, that requests to OSW for technical colleague review be limited to reports that contain complex interpretations, modeling of flow, or statistical analysis. We will attempt to honor all such requests, and believe this process might occasionally save an office from having a report returned for additional work. Charles W. Boning WRD Distribution: A, B, FO, PO