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0014 3 ~ during the previous year and is recoverable in future years and the number of storage credits associated with that water. Under this proposed rule, the Department has assumed that storage credits would be equal to the quantity of water stored less deductions and losses from storage that includes losses attributable to evaporation or percolation or water required by State law to remain in an aquifer. Such reports will also specify the balance of Colorado River storage credits redeemed during the previous year and the balance of such credits that remain recoverable as of December 31 of the previous year. This reporting requirement will not impose a burden on the authorized entity of a Storing State because the authorized entity will need to maintain these records for its own purposes. Under the proposed rule, the United States will continue to fulfill the requirements of the Decree that requires the Secretary to prepare and maintain, at least annually, complete, detailed, and accurate records of diversions of water from the mainstream, return flow of such water to the mainstream, and consumptive use of such water. Under the proposed rule, the water diverted and stored offstream will be accounted for as consumptively used in that same year in the Storing State, in accordance with Article V of the Decree. The accounting records would also reflect an equivalent quantity of storage credits in the Storing State. When unused apportionment is intentionally created to satisfy a reauest for deliverv of water from storaJ!e credits, the authorized entity must take action to ensure that its State's consumptive use is decreased by a quantity sufficient to offset the quantity of water made available as unused apportionment by the Secretary and delivered for use in another Lower Division State. After the authorized entity confirms in writing to the Secretary the quantity of water to be delivered for use in the Consuming State and includes documentation of actions taken to intentionally create a like quantity of unused apportionment, the Secretary will declare unused apportionment available within the Storing State and allocate that unused apportionment to the Consuming State to allow recoverY of the storaQe credits. The intentionally created unused apportionment so made available to the Consuming State by the Secretary will be accounted for as consumptively used when Colorado River water in the amount of the intentionally created unused apportionment is released for use in the Consuming State, in accordance with Article V of the Decree. Under the proposed rule and in accordance with Article II(B)(6) of the Decree, the Secretary may release in anyone year any Colorado River water that is apportioned for consumptive use in a Lower Division State but which will be unused in that State for consumptive use in another Lower Division States in that same year. The water so released for consumptive use in the other Lower Division States is unused apportionment. For examole. under the orooosed rule. when storaQe credits are redeemed. Colorado River water that would otherwise be suoolied to a water user in a StorinQ State could be suoolied from off stream storage in that State. The Storing State will reduce its Colorado River water use in accordance with the approved Interstate Storage Agreement. Then the Secretary, in accordance with the terms of Article II (B)(6) of the Decree, will make the Colorado River water available to the Consuming State. No other Lower Division State or other user in the Storing State will be able to claim the water since the Secretary is authorized under Article II (B)(6) of the Decree to make such water available, and the Secretary will have agreed to implement the terms of the Interstate Storage Agreement. No other Lower Division State will be eligible to receive water 20