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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />GOniO!. <br /> <br />D, Examoles of Possible Interstate Transactions <br /> <br />The following example will help to illustrate a potential transaction, Assume that an authorized <br />entity in the State of California or Nevada (acting as a Consuming State) wants 50,000 acre-feet <br />per year (af)'yr) of water stored on its behalf to obtain a future right to ICUA. The consuming <br />entity would enter into a SIRA with a storing entity (for example, the State of Arizona) and the <br />Secretary would be a party to the agreement. The consuming entity would pay the storing entity <br />to divert and store the water offstream, The water to be stored would be either unused basic or <br />surplus apportionment of the Consuming State or basic or surplus apportionment of the Storing <br />State. The storing entity would divert and store the 50 thousand (k) af/yr of Colorado River <br />water off stream in Arizona for the benefit of the consuming entity, The water could be stored, for <br />example, by actually putting it into the ground (direct recharge), by storing it in an off stream <br />surface reservoir, or by exchanging it for groundwater that otherwise would be withdrawn and <br />consumed (indirect recharge), The water diverted and stored off stream in Arizona will be <br />accounted for as being consumptively used in that same year in Arizona, in accordance with <br />Article V of the Decree, The SIRA would identify the type(s) and location(s) of storage <br />facility(ies) utilized. The consuming entity would obtain a contract right to the future release of <br />ICUA for later use. <br /> <br />In the future when the consuming entity requests release of a quantity ofICUA, it would notify <br />the storing entity and the Secretary in advance, The storing entity in the State of Arizona will <br />take actions to reduce its State's consumptive use of Colorado River water, and will develop the <br />quantity ofICUA requested by the consuming entity, Although the stored water will be held by <br />the storing entity in the State of Arizona, under Arizoll3.law, only 95% of the stored water may <br />be recovered, Therefore, the consuming entity may request only 95% of the water it pays to store <br />in Arizona, When the Secretary is satisfied that ICUA has been or will be created, Reclamation <br />will operate the Colorado River within its current and projected routine operations consistent with <br />the provisions of the BCPA and the Decree, and release up to 50 kafofICUA from the <br />mainstream of the Colorado River for diversion by the consuming entity, as allowed in the Decree <br />and other applicable laws and executive orders, The water delivered in satisfaction of a SIRA will <br />be accounted for as consumptive use of Arizona's unused apportionment in that same year in the <br />consuming state, in accordance with Article V ofthe Decree, <br /> <br />E, Related Reclamation Actions <br /> <br />Reclamation completed a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for "Water Allocations <br />and Water Service Contracting for the Central Arizona Project (CAP)" in 1982, The FEIS <br />analyzed the environmental consequences of the allocation of waters and of water service <br />contracting for Arizona's remaining entitlement of Colorado River water to be delivered by the <br />CAP, The FEIS cited Arizona's new 1980 Groundwater Management Act (Act) as a related non- <br />Reclamation action. The Act created four Active Management Areas (AMA) in specific basins <br />that experienced extensive ground-water declines and established goals to control their water <br />development and use, <br /> <br />4 <br />