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Interim Guidelines for the <br />Operation of Lake Powell <br />and Lake Mead <br />c. Extraordinary Conservation ICS created by conversion of Imported ICS that <br />was not delivered in the Year created, pursuant to this Section 3.B. because <br />5% of the ICS is deducted at the time the Imported ICS is created. <br />d. ICS created under demonstration programs in 2006 and 2007 which has <br />already been assessed the 5% system assessment. <br />Except as provided in Sections 3.A.2. and 3.A.4., Extraordinary Conservation <br />ICS can only be created if such water would have otherwise been beneficially <br />used. <br />4. The maximum total amount of Extraordinary Conservation ICS that can be <br />created during any Year is limited to the following: <br />a. 400,000 of for California Contractors; <br />b. 125,000 of for Nevada Contractors; and <br />c. 100,000 of for Arizona Contractors. <br />5. The maximum quantity of Extraordinary Conservation ICS that may be <br />accumulated in all ICS Accounts, at any time, is limited to the following: <br />a. 1.5 maf for California Contractors; <br />b. 300,000 of for Nevada Contractors; and <br />c. 300,000 of for Arizona Contractors. <br />6. Except as provided in Sections 3.A.2. and 3.A.4., no category of surplus water <br />can be used to create Extraordinary Conservation ICS. <br />7. The quantity of Extraordinary Conservation ICS remaining in an ICS Account at <br />the end of each Year shall be diminished by annual evaporation losses of 3%. <br />Losses shall be applied annually to the end-of--the-Year balance of Extraordinary <br />Conservation ICS beginning in the Year after the ICS is created and continuing <br />until no Extraordinary Conservation ICS remains in Lake Mead. No <br />evaporation losses shall be assessed during a Year in which the Secretary has <br />determined a Shortage Condition. <br />8. Extraordinary Conservation ICS from a project within a state may only be <br />credited to the ICS Account of a Contractor within that state that has funded or <br />implemented the project creating ICS, or to the ICS Account of a Contractor <br />within the same state as the funding entity and project and with written <br />agreement of the funding entity. <br />ROD -Colorado River Interim Guidelines for December 2007 <br />Lower Basin Shortages and Coordinated 41 <br />Operations for Lake Powell and Lake Mead <br />