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Or U'),,,]_ '--I :.J Impact Statement on a project to improve the channel and carrying capacity of the Limitrophe Section (from the NIB to the SIB) of the Colorado River. The EIS will also cover maintenance activities within this section of the River. A scoping meeting is scheduled for June 91h, in Yuma, Arizona, beginning at 6:00 p,m. Comments on the scoping process will be accepted through July 5,1999. . . For your infonnation, included in the Board folder, is a copy of a letter, dated May 5, 1999, from Reclamation to Commissioner John Bernal accepting Mexico's modification to its water delivery schedule for the remaining months of 1999, Mexico has requested that its June deliveries be decreased and that an offsetting increase be made in its October and November deliveries. Basin Statesffribes Discussion Since the May Board meeting, the discussions related to development of the 4.4 Plan have focused on the "administration of the third priority" held by the agricultural agencies, Those discussions have been among the CVWD, liD, MWD, Mr. David Hayes of the Department of the Interior, and Mr. Tom Hannigan ofthe Department of Water Resources. The Agency Managers have also begun to prepare another draft of the 4.4 Plan, Tied to California's development of a 4.4 Plan is the Secretary of the Interior's and Reclamation's initiation of a public process to obtain input on appropriate surplus/shortage guidelines for the operation of Lake Mead. To attain that goal, the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, on May 5th, issued in the Federal Register, a Notice of Intent to solicit comments on the development of surplus criteria for management of the Colorado River, and to initiate the National Environmental policy Act (NEPA) process. Reclamation has invited all interested parties to provide written comment, by June 3D, 1999, ", ..concerning the fonnat for the criteria, the scope of specific surplus criteria, and the issues and alternates that ...should be analyzed", Four public meetings have been scheduled to receive oral and written comments: Tuesday, June IS-Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport Wednesday, June 16- Doubletree Hotel, Ontario, California Tuesday, June 22- Alexis Park Resort, Las Vegas Wednesday, June 23-Hawk's Nest Conference Room-SLC Airport Since the comment period ends prior to the next Board meeting, it may be beneficial to have a Special Board meeting near the end of June to review and agree on the comments to be provided by the Board to Reclamation. Atthis time, it is not apparent that there is consensus among the Board members on the comments to be transmitted to Reclamation. Holding a Special Board meeting specifically devoted to this subject may allow that consensus to be obtained. Lower Colorado Water Supplv Proiect " It was October 1998 that we last discussed the status of the Lower Colorado Water Supply Project. At that time, the Board received a report from Mr. Tom Perry, City Manager of the City of Needles (Needles), concerning the number of requests Needles and the Board has received requesting 3