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<br />. <br /> <br />~\)to4~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.~ <br /> <br />River and Delta Diversion Project has been executed by the Bureau of <br />Reclamation and the Department of Water Resources. The agreement <br />allocates the water supply estimated to be available for both projects <br />and provides for the sharing of whatever deficiencies may develop as <br />a result of upstream depletions. It provides for the exchange of <br />operational information and the establishment by agreement of mutually <br />acceptable operational criteria which will produce the maximum accom- <br />plishment of both projects. The rights of third parties are, of <br />course, unaffected by the agreement and a statement to that effect <br />is included. <br />H.R. 7155 (Sisk) to authorize the San Luis Project as a <br />joint federal-state undertaking was passed by the House on May 18, <br />was promptly concurred in by the Senate, and was very recently signed <br />by the President. Amendments to the bill as introduced conditioned <br />pumping from the Delta during summer months on the quality of water <br />at the Delta~Mendota plant, deleted the section which expressly <br />exempted the state service area from the acreage limitation provisions <br />of reclamation law, and added a provision prohibiting the growing of <br />price support~d crops on new acreage brought into cultivation with <br />water supplied by the project. <br />Late in April Senator Robert S. Kerr submitted an amendment <br />to the Omnibus Flood Control Bill (H.R. 7634) which would authorize <br />the Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies to assist local <br />agencies in the formulation of local flood plain zoning laws to avoid <br />development in areas susceptible to flooding. For the past several <br />years interested federal and state agencies, including the Department <br />of Water Resources, have been conferring with a view to restricting <br /> <br />-2- <br /> <br />j, <br /> <br />, <br />" <br />~ _ ,j~~t;t <br />