WSPC12491 ‎(2)‎

• File Number: 8220.101.10
• Description: Colorado River Water Projects - Glen Canyon Dam-Lake Powell - Adaptive Management
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 10/13/1998
• Author: AZ-CO-NV-NM-UT-WY
• Title: Proposal for Interim Lake Mead Reservoir Operation Guidelines Related to Surplus-Normal-and Shortage Year Declarations - Six State Proposal - Straw Man Drafts - 10-13-98 and 11-04-98
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Six State Proposal
Straw Man Draft
Includes Fassett and Mutz comments
11/4/98

available as surplus, only 50% of that amount is available to California, unless Arizona or

Nevada choose not to divert and use the 46% and 4% of the swplus amount that is

available to those states, respectively. Article II(B)(2).

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c) The water diverted is water that was available to one of the other Lower f~
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Division States in accordance with a) or b), above, but was unused by that state. ArtiCle uJ" \

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In addition to the nee for the proposed interim reservoir operating criteria to be

consistent with t~~ of the River, the Six States assert that, as a matter of fairness to

all Colorado River Basin States, the process of developing and promulgating ncw, tcmporary

interim criteria be consistent with the following principles:

1) The federal government and California must affirmatively recognize that new;

opcrating critcria must be. onlyThe interim andoperating criteria will be in effect only during the

transition period in California water use. The. additional water made avai:lablc to California during

this pc.riod cannot be. sce.fi ~ a pCIrnancnt substitute for the unused Arizona and Nevada basic

apportionments tlpon which California has historically relied. Thus, the newinterim operating

criteria must expire by their own terms in 2010, unless affirmatively renewed untilno later than

2015. The. criteria must a:l!o pro ride that the criteria will expnc when it is established that:

California hitS achieved its goal of li ving within its bitSic 4.4 mar annual apportiomuc.ntHowever,

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