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<br />ue~-~~-~~ L~:~~ r~U~:OM~~UMD 0 UK~~n r~ <br /> <br />00J377 <br /> <br />c. Definitive agreements regarding the timing, magnitude and allocation of the costs <br />of environmental mitigation obligations for the full term of the proposed transfers <br />were not reached; <br /> <br />d. Credible estimates of the total cost of all required mitigation m~s were not <br />available; and <br /> <br />e. Credible and firm. funding commitments have not been obtained from the other <br />QSA parties to pay environmental-mitigation costs as incurred and to ensure that <br />ITD7s costs of environmental mitigation would not exceed the agreed upon $30 <br />million cap for the full term of the proWsed transfers; <br /> <br />3. Uncertainty regarding the scope, cost, feasibility and method of reclamation of the Salton <br />Sea created an unreasonable risk that lID would not be able to conserve water long-term <br />by methods other than land fallowing. <br /> <br />4_ The Department of the Interior refused 'to grant neCeSsary approvals: <br /> <br />a DOl refused to determine that the use of Colorado River water to mitigate the <br />impacts on the Salton Sea caused by conservation and transfer activities is a <br />beneficial use of water_ <br /> <br />b. DOl refused to accept a condition subsequent for no to complete and obtain <br />approval of an acceptable HCP on or before December 31~ 2003. <br /> <br />c. DOl failed to provide reasonable assurances to insulate no from challenges to its <br />reasonable use related to the fallowing required for the transfer, in a form <br />comparable to the SB 482 provisions of state law. , <br /> <br />5. No one agreed to make reasonable p'ayments to the lID for creating water to mitigate <br />environmental impacts on the Salton Sea.: <br /> <br />6. The unresolved problems listed above created an unacceptable risk of early termination <br />and stranded capital costs. ' . <br /> <br />7. The 75-year term was too long. <br /> <br />B. Proposed Terms for Short-Term Fallowing Transfer Program <br /> <br />Term: 5 years <br /> <br />Start Date: Immediately upon completion of: <br /> <br />· Necessary environmental review, approvals, and issuance of CESA and ESA permits for <br />. the 5-year trallsfer period; <br /> <br />· SWRCB approval for the 5-year transfer; and <br /> <br />· DOl approval for the 5-year program., including approval of the use of Colorado River <br />water for mitigation purposes as required by environmental permits and approvals, and <br />ad~ption of an Inadvertent Overrun and Payback Program_ ' <br /> <br />~69829.01ISD <br />141 is I-OOYI2-13-02/dloldlo <br /> <br />-2- <br />