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<br />000259 <br /> <br />Six State Proposal <br />Straw Man Draft <br />Includes Fassett and Mutz comments <br />11/4/98 <br /> <br />million acre feet. Under other circumstances, the space building formula may be such that <br /> <br />only small volumes of water would need to be evacuated. However., since flood control ~ <br /> <br />related releases are generally associated with very full reservoir conditions, the Six ate <br /> <br />groundwater banking and additional water for Mexico, to be met. <br /> <br /> <br />proposal would allow any and all beneficial uses, including unlimited off stream <br /> <br />v. Shorta2e Detennination Criteria <br /> <br />The Six States believe that considering current reservoir conditions and CtUl'Gnt cIc:mands, J- ~ <br /> <br />with prudent system management, the Secretary of the Interior should not have to declare a ~ ~ <br /> <br />:hortage condition for many years. Even with this recognition, the Six States believe that the ~ ~ \ <br /> <br />~(/ ~ <br />establishment of shortage criteria that work in conjunction with the surphImnterim criteria is ~ \"lJ <br /> <br />valuable for two primary reasons. First, the Arizona Water Bank has been created within Arizona <br /> <br />primarily to store water underground over the next twenty years to mitigate the dcctscffects of <br /> <br />future shortages to Arizona municipal water users. Shortage criteria are critical to-for the-Water <br /> <br />Bank planning. The volumes of water that Arizona will withdraw as either basic apportionment <br /> <br />or surplus apportionment over the next ten to twenty years is highly dependent on the need for <br /> <br />water banking that will be used as shortage protection. The. second primary reason roI the need <br /> <br />to establishSecondly, shortage criteria ~are needed to be able to identify any negative impacts <br /> <br />created by the implementation of the temporary surplus criteria. TheAll Six States, btrtand <br /> <br />especially Arizona and Nevada, want to be able to identify when the release of water to California <br /> <br />that we!e the rcsnlt offrom either the partial oror full M&I surplus tiers, reStlltcd in a negative <br /> <br />16 <br />