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<br />002;357 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />when construction must start and the water put to use. <br />Extensions may be granted from time to time, but lack <br />of diligence may result in cancellation of the permit <br />and loss of priority. <br />(3) A license is granted for the amount of water <br />finally put to use. <br />In 1927, the legislature authorized the Department of <br />Finance to file applications for water which, in its judgment, <br />might be required for completion of a general or coordinated plan <br />looking toward full development of the water resources of the State, <br />the filings to be assigned or releases from priority granted to <br />agencies proposing to construct projects not in conflict with the <br />plan. These state filings differ from applications by others in <br />that, until October 1, 1963, or such later date as may be pre- <br />scribed by further legislative enactment, action on the filing <br />can be longer postponed without loss of priority. At present the <br />Department of Water Resources makes the filings, and the respon- <br />sibility for assignment or release from priority rests with the <br />California Water Commission. The law requires that the Commission <br />grant no assignments or releases in favor of projects which <br />conflict with a coordinated plan or which would deprive a county <br />in which the water originates of any water which might be needed <br />later for its full development. Following assignment} the filing <br />follows the usual course through the Water Rights Board and is <br />handled like any other filing. <br />Since 1927, about 175 state applications have been filed. <br />Of these, about twenty have been assigned to the United States <br />for purposes of the Central Valley Project, eleven to t~e <br />-2- <br /> <br />~.ii.. . <br />