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<br />OCT-16-9S FRJ: <br /> <br />11:06 UPPER COLORADO RJ:VER COMM <br />00.0229 <br /> <br />P.0S <br /> <br />Six State Proposal <br />Straw Man Draft <br />October 13, 1998 <br /> <br />California. The criteria cannot be designed to allow Calitornia to divert Colorado River water <br /> <br />that is needed only because it is a less expensive source of water than other supplies available <br /> <br />within California. The Six States are also unwilling to accept operating criteria which provide <br /> <br />,< <br /> <br />additional water to Southern California in order that environmental issues elsewhere in California (jt7(>~ Si'v <br />,/ .\.../ ,,) <br />1';. '\ \ <br />can be addressed. ~~ ''00'' <br />'x (}' <br />i"r-" <br /> <br />8) To the extent that these interim crit~ria operate to provide extra water to <br /> <br />municipal and industrial water users in Southern California, municipal and industrial water users <br /> <br />in the other Lower Division States must be afforded the same opportunity, within the allocations <G <br /> <br /> <br />defined by the Law of the River. For example, if the Secretat)' declares a surplus, it must be Q <br /> <br />recognized that municipal and industrial water users in Nevada would also be entitled to water <br /> <br />above the state's basic apportionment to meet their needs. <br /> <br />9) <br /> <br />The Six States are well aware that the revised 4.4 Plan calls for a considerable <br /> <br />amount of groundwater banking within California at sites in the Cadiz Basin, <br /> <br />Hayfield/Chuckwalla Basin, and DesertlCoachella Basin. These proposals will depend upon the <br /> <br />availability of surplus Colorado River water. The Six States are concerned that under some <br /> <br />circumstances these off stream banking proposals will lower reservoir levels to the point where <br /> <br />the following year a "spill avoidance type" surplus will not be declared. The operating criteria <br /> <br />proposed in the Draft 4.4 Plan insulates MWD from the effects of this condition by merely <br /> <br />triggering a "Level 2 surplus" which still will keep the Colorado River Aqueduct full. The Six <br /> <br />States believe that off stream banking of surplus water must be limited to only those years when <br /> <br />7 <br /> <br />..oJ <br /> <br />\~\; <br />~ \} <br />Ilil( <br />'\ rI \' <br />v ..J ' <br />, .J O'~\,e,~ ' <br />if. ,\ \J1 <br />\/'J~ J. <br />~., ~vII' <br />,\01 <br />