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<br />5 <br /> <br /> <br />.... <br />00 <br />~ <br />I- <br /> <br />sllrplus revenues from the CAP would accrue to the Lower Colorado <br /> <br />IUver Basin Development Fund and be available to assist in returning <br /> <br />the reiinbursable costs of any Colorado River augmentation "orks. <br /> <br />The only'effect of CAP on the plan presented herein is thus in the <br /> <br />magnitude of Development Fund revenues tlElt "auld accrue from CAP. <br /> <br />With an Btlgmented river, there would be n great deal more water for <br /> <br />sale from CAP, both for irrigation and municipal and industrial <br /> <br />purposes, and the welter mc)rketing presented in the Sununary Report <br /> <br />"auld be substantially altered. <br /> <br />With an augmented Colorado River,a constant diversion of about <br /> <br />I. 6 million acre-feet annually "ould be assured. In the Sunnnary <br /> <br />Report, "hich reflected natural river conditions, it "as projected <br /> <br />that prior to 1990 the average "ater supply available to the CAP <br /> <br />would b~gin to decrease progressively as Upper Basin uses increased, <br /> <br />drupping from 1.6 million acre-feet (m,a.f.) to an average diversion <br /> <br />of 676,ClOO acre-feet by the year 2030. Of this aver~ge diversion, <br /> <br />only a little more than 300,000 acre-feet represented assured project <br /> <br />deliveries. Thus, in the Summary Report, sales of "ater for <br /> <br />municipal and industrial (M&l) purposes were limited to assured <br /> <br />deliveries of 312,000 acre-feet "hich accommodated increased M&l <br /> <br />demands up to the year 2000. After the Yl,ar 2000 M&I water deliveric,s <br /> <br />were held constant. With an assured diversion of 1.6 m.d.f. from an <br /> <br />'lllgmented Colorado River, increases in M&I demands after the year <br /> <br />2000 would be met from CAP "ater supplies. By the year 2030 it is <br /> <br />projpeted that 672,000 acre-feet of M&I water demand "Quid be <br />