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<br />L . <br /> <br />886 <br /> <br />NATURAL RESOURCES JOURNAL <br /> <br />[Vol 37 <br /> <br />Walker, Wynn & Gaylord Skogerbee, An Implicit Approach to Pricing Agricultural Water <br />Transfers to Urban Uses, 11 WATER RES. BULL. 751 (1975). <br /> <br />Wong, Benedict & Wayland Eheart, Market Simulations for Irrigation Water Rights: A <br />Hypothetical Case Study, 19 WATER RESOURCES RES. 1127 (1983). <br /> <br />4. Federal Water Transfers <br /> <br />The federal governrnent, operating principally through the Bureau of Reclamation (Bure u) <br />and the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), stores and distributes large quantities of water and as <br />the potential to shape the future of western water transfers. While federal laws recognize the stat s' <br />primacy in the allocation [reallocation] of water rights the complex relationships between fede I <br />water agencies, the state water agencies, state-established water and irrigation districts, mut al <br />irrigation districts and individual water users represents a barrier to water transfers. Basically, if a <br />water user with a contractual right to receive Bureau or Corps water seeks to transfer that water lor <br />right to another, the transfer would be subject to federal, state and local review. While the law m Y <br />tilt in favor of state law governing transfers, federal project managers retain substantial discreti n <br />in determining whether to approve transfers under their physical control. The literature speaks to t e <br />need for institutional clarification favoring water transfers. <br /> <br /> <br />BUREAU OF RECLAMATION, VOLUNTARY WATER TRANSACTIONS CRITERIA A <br />GUIDANCE (1989). <br /> <br />Richard Collins, Voluntary Conveyance of the Right to Receive a Water Supply from the Unit d <br />States Bureau of Reclamation, 13 ECOLOGY L.Q. 773 (1987). <br /> <br />John M. Dunn, Marketing of Surplus Water from Federal Reservoirs, 13 LAND & WATER L. RE . <br />835 (1978). <br /> <br />Brian Gray et aI., Transfers of Federal Reclamation Water: A Case Study of California San Joaqul <br />Valley, 21 ENVTL. L. 911 (1991). <br /> <br />Mark Kanazawa, Pricing Subsidies and Economic Efficiency: The Bureau of Reclamation, J.L. <br />ECON.205 (1993). <br /> <br />LAWRENCE MACDONNELL ET AL., FACILITATING VOLUNTARY TRANSFERS 0 <br />BUREAU OF RECLAMATION SUPPLIED WATER (July 1991) (University of Colorado Scho <br />of Law Natural Resources Law Center Final Report Vol. 1 &2). <br /> <br />John Merrifield, The Federal Interest in Flexible Interstate Water Allocation in the Southwest, i <br />WATER AND THE FUTURE OF THE SOUTHWEST 201-12 (Z. Smith ed., 1989). <br /> <br />Joseph Sax, Selling Reclamation Water Rights: A Case Study in Federal Subsidy Policy, 64 MIcH <br />L. REV. 13 (1965). <br /> <br />Dan Tarlock, From Reclamation to Reallocation of Western Water, 46 J. SOIL & W ATE <br />CONSERVATION 122 (1991). <br />