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<br />(4). Water Banking at Lake Mead <br />In 1992, building on its successful experience with its intrastate Drought <br /> <br />Water Bank in 1991, California proposed an Interstate Water Bank at Lake Mead <br /> <br />operated by a forum created by the seven Basin states, which would store up to 6.8 <br /> <br />MAF of unused Upper Basin water to help the states meet their individual and <br /> <br />collective water supply needs during critical or emergency water supply periods. The <br /> <br />responses of the other Basin states to the proposal were cool, expressing concern that <br /> <br />the proposal could not be implemented within the "Law of the River." Consequently, <br /> <br />the California proposal appears dead. <br /> <br />Section 8 of the California Seven Party Agreement provides that MWD "shall <br /> <br />have the exclusive right to withdraw and divert into its aqueduct any water in <br /> <br />Boulder Canyon Reservoir accumulated to the individual credit of said district... <br /> <br />(not exceeding at anyone time 4,750,000 acre-feet in the aggregate) by reason of <br /> <br />reduced diversions by said district... subject to such conditions as to accumulation, <br /> <br />retention, release, and withdrawaf' as the Secretary may prescribe. <br /> <br />MWD has not formally petitioned the Secretary to exercise its banking right, so any <br /> <br />conditions the Secretary might impose on its exercise are uncertain. <br /> <br /> <br />(5). The IID-San Diego County Water Authority Transfer <br /> <br /> <br />In the mid-1990's San Diego County Water Authority ("SDCWA"), MWD's <br /> <br /> <br />largest customer, determined that it wanted to acquire its own block of Colorado <br /> <br />32 <br />