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<br />FEB-20-S8 FRX 10:13 UPPER COLORADO RXVER COMM <br /> <br />P.02 <br /> <br />";" <br /> <br />001377 <br /> <br />February _, , 998 <br /> <br />Bureau of Reclamation <br />Administrative Record <br />Lower Colorado Regional Office <br />P. O. Box 61470 <br />Boulder City, Nevada 89006-1470 <br /> <br />Dear Reclamation Staff: <br /> <br />On behalf of the Upper Division States, the Upper Colorado River Commission <br />(Commission) appreciates the opportunity to comment on your recent Federal Register Notice <br /> <br />of Proposed Rulemaking "Offstream Storage of Colorado River Water and Interstate <br />Redemption of Storage Credits in the Lower Division States" (62 FR 68492, December 31, <br />1997) and your Draft "Programmatic Environmental Assessment for Proposed Rule Making for <br /> <br />Offstream Storage of Colorado River Water and Interstate Redemption of Storage Credits in <br /> <br />the Lower Division States." The Upper Division States believe that the proposed rule and the <br /> <br />environmental assessment (EA) on the rule are positive steps toward helping the Lower <br /> <br />Division States solve the water supply problems they face now and in the future. <br /> <br />AS you know, in 1992 the seven Colorado Rivef Basin States began meeting with <br /> <br />representatives of some of the Colorado River Indian tribes to discuss water.related problems <br /> <br />in the Basin and possible solutions. One of the primary topics of discussion in these meetings, <br /> <br />which came to be know as the "7/10 meetings," was the State of California's current use of <br /> <br />more than her basic entitlement of water in the Colorado River Compact and the State of <br /> <br />Nevada's projected need for more water than her basic entitlement within the near future. The <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />initial response of the four Upper Division States was that these' issues were basically 8 Lower <br /> <br />Division States problem, so the Lower Division States began meeting on their own to find <br /> <br />solutions to their water supply needs. Discussions continued among the Lower Division States <br />