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<br />G02z:n <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />{e <br /> <br />Central Arizona Project (CAP) is estimated to divert 1.397 mafand The Metropolitan Water District <br />of Southern California (MWD) to divert 1.167 maf. <br /> <br />The preliminary May I n forecast of 1998 end-of-year California agricultural conswnptive use <br />of Colorado River water under the first three priorities of the 1931 California Seven Party Agreement <br />is 3.802 maf. This estimate is based on the collective use through April 1998 by the Palo Verde <br />Irrigation District (PVID), the Ywna Project Reservation Division (YPRD), the Imperial Irrigation <br />District (lID), and the Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD). Figure I, found at the end of this <br />report, depicts the forecast of end-of-year agricultura1 use for the year. <br /> <br />Colorado River ooerations <br /> <br />Last November the Agency Managers received a report from Reclamation entitled Lower <br />Colorado River Accounting System (LCRAS) Demonstration of Technology and accompanying <br />appendix. The intent of the report was to demonstrate that LCRAS could replace the current <br />methodology for compiling the Decree Accounting Report. Included in the Board folder is a copy <br />of a letter from Reclamation announcing it will be holding a consultation meeting in Las Vegas, <br />Nevada, on May 151h to discuss the objectives of LCRAS. At the meeting, Reclamation would like <br />to form a technical committee to provide input and improve LCRAS and develop solutions to some <br />outstanding questions. Reclamation has tentatively scheduled the first technical meeting to be on <br />June 161h and a second meeting near the end of July. Each meeting will last for two days. <br /> <br />As reported at the April Board meeting, Reclamation is beginning its process to develop the <br />1999 Annual Operating Plan for the Colorado River System Reservoirs (1999 AoP). The first <br />meeting of the Colorado River Management Work Group, which will begin to develop the 1999 <br />AOP, will be held on May IS, 1998. It is anticipated that at that meeting Reclamation will distribute <br />its first draft of the 1999 AoP to the Work Group members. Comments on the draft 1999 AoP will <br />be received by Reclamation and discussed at the next Work Group meeting scheduled for June 30, <br />1998. The final consultation meeting between the Department of the Interior and representatives of <br />the Colorado River Basin states is scheduled to be held on August 4, 1998. <br /> <br />It is anticipated that, this year, no formal surplus or shortage guidelines or criteria will be <br />used as the basis for determining the water releases from Lake Mead contained in the 1999 AoP; <br />rather, that determination will be based upon existing conditions within the Colorado River Basin <br />and the potential impact of such a determination on the ayaihibility future water supplies to the <br />Lower Division states. The same type of considerations will be used to determine if water will be <br />delivered to Mexico under a normal or surplus condition. Since the Colorado River reservoir system <br />is essentially full, I anticipate that Reclamation will propose a surplus condition for deliveries to the <br />Colorado River mainstream users in the Lower Basin as well as for water deliveries to Mexico. <br /> <br />Rel!ulations for Adrninistratinl! Entitlements <br />in the Lower Colorado River Basin <br /> <br />At the April Board meeting, the Board members received copies of the comments that the <br />Board, as well as the 45 other interested parties, sent to Reclamation on its proposed Rule on <br /> <br />2 <br />