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<br />000869 <br /> <br />AUTHORITY: (identify existing or new) <br />COST: <br />FUNDING SOURCE: <br />ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT: (categorical exclusion/EIS/other) <br />ENVIRONMENTAL OR ESA ISSUES: <br />NEED FOR RULES AND REGULATIONS: <br /> <br />· Examine cooperative interstate desalting of ocean and brackish waters. As <br />part of its Net New Water Supply Study (NEW AS Study), Reclamation should <br />examine as a case study the feasibility of Lower Colorado Region cooperative <br />interstate desalting of ocean and brackish waters. This would include the <br />examination of technical, environmental, legal, institutional, regulatory, <br />economic/financial, and operational aspects of interstate desalting as a means of <br />augmenting the Colorado River water supply pursuant to the Colorado River <br />Basin Project Act of 1968. <br /> <br />AUTHORITY: (identify existing or new) <br />COST: <br />FUNDING SOURCE: <br />ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT: (categorical excIusion/EIS/other) <br />ENVIRONMENTAL OR ESA ISSUES: <br />NEED FOR RULES AND REGULATIONS: <br /> <br />· Study wildfire forest management/water snpply enhancement. The National <br />Academy of Science is undertaking a study of wildfire forest management and the <br />potential associated increase in a watershed's water supply. The Academy should <br />be encouraged to complete the report in a timely manner and to give special <br />consideration to the Colorado River Basin. <br /> <br />AUTHORITY: (identify existing or new) <br />COST: <br />FUNDING SOURCE: <br />ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT: (categorical exclusion/EIS/other) <br />ENVIRONMENTAL OR ESA ISSUES: <br />NEED FOR RULES AND REGULATIONS: <br /> <br />· Evaluate precipitation management. In the early 1980s, the Basin States and <br />Reclamation were preparing legislation to authorize a cost-shared weather <br />modification demonstration program for the Colorado River Basin that focused on <br />augmenting winter orographic storms. Increased mountain snowfall of 10 to 15 <br />percent per winter has been suggested from statistical analyses of some cloud <br />seeding programs. The 1983-1986 high runoff years and near full reservoirs <br />thereafter prevented the program from proceeding. <br /> <br />-13- <br />