WSP12185

• File Number: 8067
• Description: Section D General Federal Issues/Policies-Section 7 Consultations
• Date: 6/1/1979
• Title: Federal Water Rights 1973-83-Report of Federal Task Force on Non-Indian Reserved Rights
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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7. Major sources of water as Identified by WRC Accounting
Unit 21/ on the reservation and the number and name of the WRC
aggregated subreglon.32/

The agencies have also Inventoried the estimated total amount of

water currently being used to carry out agency programs In each WRC

aggregated subregion. Those Inventories are also attached to this

report and show the following general Information:
I. Name and number of WRC subregion;

2. Agency administering the lands;

3. Total annual use of both surface and groundwater;

4. Total amount of seasonal water use for both surface

and groundwater and the period of use.

3. Cost Estimates. Each agency has estimated the minimum number

of years and the dollar amount necessary for a systematic, complete

Identification and quantification of federal water rights In the western

states. The results by agency fallow:

31/ Appendix 3, Map of Accounting Units of the National Water Data
Network, 1979, shows each of the WRC Accounting Units and also those
Accounting Units In which there Is currently litigation Involving
either or both Indian and non-Indian reserved water rights litigation.

32/ The Water Resources Council, In coordination with federal and state
agencies, has divided the Nation Into numbered hydrologic units by (I)
Reqlons (major hydrologic areas of the country), (2) Subreqlons (major
river basins), (3) Accountlnq Units (subdivisions of river basins), and
(4) Cataloqlnq Units (smallest divisions of drainage basins), In order
to facilitate the collection and storage of water resource data. All of
these units are shown on "Hydrologic Unit" maps prepared by the U.S.G.S.
The Task Force used the WRC Subregion and Accounting Unit designations In
gathering the water use data In order to facilitate the coordination of
federal water use Information with other water resource data Information
being compiled by federal, state and local entities.

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