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IVAL V. GOSLIN J. A. Riggins, Jr. Attorney at Law Salt River Project Virgil L. Jones President, Board of Trustees Palo Verde Irrigation District At the conclusion of the statements of all of the panel members there will be a question and answer period. Questions may be directed by anyone in the audience to any of the participants, to any panel member or to the "keynoter". Questions may also be propounded by members of the panel be- tween and among themselves, or directed at the "keynoter". Arizona California Important Provisions of P. L. 90-537 The Colorado River Basin Project Act To set the stage I want to briefly mention several provisions of this Bill. Some of you may need to be reminded in order to become more freshly oriented to the discussion. P. L. 90-537, the Colorado River Basin Project Act, in terms of dolIars, is the largest single re- clamation Bill to ever be enacted into law by the United States Congress. Geographically, it is region- wide in scope, What does this new law do? Eleven of the more important provisions of this legislation are: The Act I. Directed the Secretary to produce a final reconnaissance report by 1977 on a general plan for providing for the water requirements of those States lying wholly or in part west of the continen- tal divide. 2. Declared a IO-year moratorium on studies of water imports into the Colorado River from drainage basins outside of the Colorado River Basin States. 3. Declared a policy, without any physical implementation, of making the delivery of IYz maf of Mexican Treaty water a national responsibility. 4. Authorized the construction of a CAP at an estimated cost of $932 million, which in- cludes $832 million for facilities to pump water from Lake Havasu behind Parker Dam on the Colo- rado River and to transport it about 300 miles to the Phoenix-Tuscon area of central Arizona and. $100 million for distribution and drainage works. Included as part of the CAP is Hooker Darn and res- ervoir, or an alternative on the Gila River which will enable New Mexico to use 18,000 acre-feet of Gila River water. 5. Granted a priority to California for 4.4 maf of Colorado River water - - about 700,000 acre-feet less than she is now using. 6. Authorized the Secretary of the Interior to participate in thermal-power generation by prepayment of an estimated $100 million plus as a share of the cost of a thermal-electric generating plant and transmission lines to be constructed by public and private utilities, 7. Reauthorized construction of Dixie Project in Utah and raised its cost-authorization ceil- ing from $42.7 million to $58 million: a.lthorized the $43 million dolIar Uintah Unit of the. CUP, subject to a finding of feasibility; and providcd priority of planning status for a number of additional participating projects in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. 8. Established a Lower Colorado River Basin Fund with revenues from present and poten- tial projects to finance authorized and future water development. 9. Authorized the construction of five participating projects of the CRSP in Colorado and New Mexico at an estimated cost of $392 million. 10. Directed the Secretary of the Interior to prepare criteria for the coordinated long-range operation of reservoirs constructed and operated under the authority of various documents that con- stitute the "law of the river". II. Removed from the FPC the authority to license hydroelectric dams on the Colorado River between Hoover and Glen Canyon dams until Congress provides otherwise. -39-