WSP11698

• File Number: 8210.470
• Description: Pacific Southwest Interagency Committee
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 8/6/1964
• Author: Unknown
• Title: Lower Colorado River Basin Project - Report with Individual and Minority Views - To Accompany S 1658 - Calendar Number 1267
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER BASIN PROJECT 29

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sand acre-feet, in Oalifornia of four million four hundrlld thousand
acre-feet, and in Nevada of three hundred thousand acre-feet)
water to make up such deficiencies at costs to the users that
would have prevailed had main stream Oolorado River water
been available for consumptive uses in the aforesaid amounts,
such costs to be allocated among the purposes for which main
stream Colorado River water is made available and to be returned
within the period specified in subparagraph (1) of this subsection:
Provided, however, That water made available by such units that
is not needed to make up the foregoing deficiencies shall be dis-
posed of by the Secretary at.rates or for repayment determined
in accordance with the provisions of law otherwise applicable to
said units.
(f) The interest rate applicable to those portions of the reimbursable
costs of each unit of the project which are properly allocated to com-
mercial power development and municipal and industrial water supply
shall be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, as of the begin-
ning of the fiscal year in which the first advance is made for initiating
construction of such unit, on the basis of the computed average
interest rate payable by the Treasury upon its outstanding marketable
public obligations which are neither due not callable for redemption
fifteen years from the date of issue.
(g) Business-type budgets shall be submitted to the Congress
annually for all operations financed by the development fund.
SEC. 103. (a) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and di-
rected to-
(1) Prepare estimates of the long-range water supply available
for consumptive use in the Lower Colorado River Basin, of
current water requirements in said basin, and of the rate of
growth of water requirements therein to the year 2030.
(2) Investigate alternative sources in the State of California
and various methods such as weather modification and desaliniza-
tion of water as means of supplying water to meet the current
and anticipated water requirements ill the Lower Colorado River
Basin, and prepare preliminary plans to accomplish such purpose.
In planning any works to import water into the Lower Colorado
River Basin from alternative sources in'California, the Secretary
shall give due consideration to existing and future needs within
the areas of origin of the imported water and the State of Cali-
fornia and the means of offsetting the additional costs of future
projects within said areas of origin and State of California
caused by the preemption of the lower cost water sources that
otherwise would have benefited said areas of origin and State of
California, including the use of the development fund for this
purpose.
(3) Investigate projects within the Lower Colorado River
Basin, includmg projects on tributaries of the Colorado River,
where undeveloped water supplies are available or can be made
available by replacement or exchange.
(4) (a) Investigate means of providing for prudent water con-
servation practices to permit maximum beneficial utilization of
available water supplies.
(b) The Secretary shall submit annually to the President and
the Congress reports covering the investigations required by

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