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. . "."" .., At the August Board meeting, the Board discussed the legislation proposed by Congressman Duncan Hunter of San Diego, entitled the Colorado River Settlement Facilitation Act, H.R. 2764. This bill provides for $53 million for construction of regulating reservoirs along the All-American Canal and $60 million for the Salton Sea enhancement measures. Included in the Board folder are copies of various letters sent to Basin States representatives, each member of the Califomia Legislature, and key staff within the Governor's administration as well as water policy legislative staffers requesting their support for H.R. 2764. Cadiz Project Included in the Board folder is a copy ofajoint news release by MWD and the Bureau of Land Management announcing the issuance of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Cadiz Groundwater Storage and Dry- Year Supply Program. The Cadiz project is one of the resource management programs the MWD is pursuing to enhance southern California's supply reliability from the Colorado River and has been identified in California's Colorado River Water Use Plan. Basin States/Ten Tribes Discussion Meeting of the Representativesfrom the Seven Basin States The next meeting of the representatives from the seven Basin States is scheduled for October 8, 2001, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Included in the handout material is a copy of the proposed agenda. I will further discuss the outcome of the Basin states meeting during the October Board meeting. Minute No. 306 Symposium (Colorado River Delta Symposium) As you can imagine, the events of September 11th had a serious impact on the symposium. Due to the chaos of the moment, attendance by the presenters and audience was affected. Following the Symposium the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission originated a conference call of a number of the Symposium participants to discuss the next steps. During that conference call, general consensus was expressed that the translation of the presentation by the Mexican speakers was very poor. It was felt that the speakers provided a lot of good information in their presentations; however, with the translation into English much was lost. As a result, there was a desire to attempt to have each of the authors provide a translated version of their presentations, or at least, a translated version of their slides. As far as the next steps in the Minute 306 process, it was decided that until the participants have a copy of the proceedings from the Symposium it is premature to identifY actions to be taken. Thus, priority was placed on getting the proceedings published in an expedited manner. Once the proceedings are published and people have an opportunity to review them, we will be in a better position to identifY the next steps in this process. For the bi-national process, Mr. Ybarra indicated that there is a need for a timeout for each section of the IBWC to consult individually with its constituents to determine how each country would 4