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<br />000866 <br /> <br />AUTHORITY: (identifY existing or new) <br />COST: <br />FUNDING SOURCE: <br />ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT: (categorical exclusionlEIS/other) <br />ENVIRONMENTAL OR ESA ISSUES: <br />NEED FOR RULES AND REGULATIONS: <br /> <br />· Resolve Yuma Island water use dispute. Reclamation needs to complete its <br />analysis ofthe Yuma Island water use dispute and render its decision at the <br />earliest possible date. <br /> <br />AUTHORITY: (identifY existing or new) <br />COST: <br />FUNDING SOURCE: <br />ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT: (categorical exclusionlEIS/other) <br />ENVIRONMENTAL OR ESA ISSUES: <br />NEED FOR RULES AND REGULATIONS: <br /> <br />POTENTIAL INITIATION OF IMMEDIATE ACTIONS FOR NEAR TERM <br />IMPLEMENTATION (Includes continuation of immediate actions) <br /> <br />· Investigate and construct, as appropriate, ground and surface water facilities <br />to manage water made available through intrastate and interstate water <br />pool/banking programs. Opportunities to construct facilities that would benefit <br />management ofthe available water within the entire Colorado River System to <br />avoid, or at least lessen, the impacts of low runoff conditions would be pursued <br />cooperatively by Reclamation, the Basin States, and agencies within the states. <br />This would include development of necessary mechanisms and arrangements to <br />effectively implement these programs that would augment or supplement the <br />available supply. <br /> <br />AUTHORITY: (identifY existing or new) <br />COST: <br />FUNDING SOURCE: <br />ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT: (categorical exclusionlElS/other) <br />ENVIRONMENTAL OR ESA ISSUES: <br />NEED FOR RULES AND REGULATIONS: <br /> <br />· Review the potential and required actions for conserving high water events <br />on the Gila River as a means of conserving Colorado River reservoir system <br />storage. Painted Rock Dam on the Gila River is a flood control structure that has <br />the potential to conserve additional water, if operated for water supply and other <br />purposes in conjunction with Colorado River system reservoirs. The Corps of <br />Engineers made an analysis in the mid-l 990s of the increased Colorado River <br /> <br />-10- <br />