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<br />OU1113 <br /> <br /> <br />UNITED STATES <br />DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR <br /> <br />OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY <br /> <br />PACIFIC SOUTHWEST REGION <br />BOX 36098 . 450 GOLDEN GATE AVENUE <br />SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA 94102. <br />(415) 556,82.00 <br /> <br />July 12, 1972 <br /> <br />Brigadier General George B. Fink <br />Division Engineer <br />U. S. Army Engineer Division, <br />South Pacific <br />Corps of Engineers <br />630 Sansome Street, Room 1216 <br />San Francisco, CA 94111 <br /> <br />General Fink: <br /> <br />The Analytical Summary Report has been reviewed by this <br />Department's field agencies. Many of the agencies were <br />involved in the preparation of the four regional reports <br />and supporting appendices that provided the basis for the <br />Analytical Summary Report. The comments resulting from <br />the field level review on the whole are highly compli- <br />mentary of the report and of the overall operations of <br />the Pacific Southwest Inter-Agency Committee in the total <br />framework study effort. <br /> <br />The report should provide a useful summary of the outlooks <br />and potential impacts that may occur in the next 50 years <br />as the population of the Pacific Southwest increases. The <br />report and its supporting documents understandably will <br />provide a starting point for the evaluations of future <br />water resources and related land developments and the <br />attendant environmental impacts. <br /> <br />Reference is made to Federal "reserved water rights." <br />Regrettably, mention was not made to the Indian claims <br />for water. The Indian claims go beyond the Federal <br />reservation principle. The United States Supreme Court <br />has held that the right to use water for irrigation from <br />streams and rivers on, or adjacent to, Indian reservations <br />was impliedly reserved by the united States at the time <br />the reservations were created. winters v United States, <br />207 U.S. 564 (1908). The doctrine of implied reservation <br /> <br />EXHIBIT E <br /> <br />