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<br />001439 <br /> <br />414.4 Reporting requirements and accounting for storage credits. <br />414.5 Water quality. <br />414.6 Environmental compliance. <br /> <br />Authority: 43 U.S.c. 617; 43 U.S.C. 391; 43 U.S.C. 485; 43 <br />U.S.C. 1501; 5 U.S.C. 553; 373 U.S. 546; 376 U.S. 340. <br /> <br />Sec.414.1 Purpose. <br /> <br />This part sets forth the procedural framework for approval by the Secretary of the Interior <br />of interstate agreements for the offstream storage of Colorado River water in the Lower <br />Division States by State-authorized entities consistent with State law. In accordance with the <br />Secretary's authority under Article II (B) (6) of the Decree entered March 9, 1964 (376 U.S. <br />340), in the case of Arizona v. California, et al. as supplemented and amended, this part also <br />includes the procedural framework to develop and redeem storasze credits associated with <br />Colorado River water stored offstream by authorized entities consistent with State law. This <br />part does not address intrastate storage or distribution of water not subject to an Interstate <br />Storage Agreement. <br /> <br />Sec. 414.2 DeUnitions. <br /> <br />The following definitions, listed alphabetically, apply to this part: <br />Authorized entity means a State water banking authority, or other entity of a Lower <br />Division State holding entitlements to Colorado River water, expressly authorized pursuant to <br />applicable laws of Lower Division States to: <br />(1) Enter into Interstate Storage Agreements; <br />(2) Develop intentionally created unused apportionment; <br />(3) Acquire the right to use intentionally created unused apportionment; or <br />ill Develop or redeem st01'a2e credits for the benefit of an authorized entity in another Lower <br />Division State. <br />Basic apportionment means the Colorado River water apportioned to each Lower Division <br />State when sufficient water is available for release, as determined by the Secretary of the <br />Interior, to satisfy 7.5 million acre-feet (mat) of annual consumptive use in the Lower Division <br />States. The annual basic apportionment for the Lower Division States is 2.8 maf of consumptive <br />use for the State of Arizona, 4.4 maf of consumptive use for the State of California, and 0.3 maf <br />of consumptive use for the State of Nevada. <br />Colorado River water means water in or withdrawn from the mainstream. <br />Consummf! State means a Lower Division State where water made available bv redeeming <br />storasze credits is or will be used. <br />Consumptive use means diversions from the Colorado River less such return flow to the <br />river as is available for consumptive use in the United States or in satisfaction of the Mexican <br />treaty obligation. Consumptive use from the mainstream within the Lower Division States <br />includes all consumptive use of water from the mainstream, including water drawn from the <br /> <br />25 <br />