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<br />What is needed from the other agencies to complete the QSA? <br /> <br />Imperial needs to recognize the significant risks it currently faces and that a risk free world <br />does not exist. Contrary to its assertions, lID does not have an absolute right to 3.85 MAF less <br />amounts used by the first and second priorities. What IID does have is the right to as much of <br />that water as it puts to reasonable and beneficial use in its service area. That limitation applies to <br />its PPRs as well as to its additional contract right. We respect lID's water rights as thus limited, <br />but lID continues to ignore the limitation and now denies Interior's obligation, imposed by the <br />United States Supreme Court in Arizona v. California to limit deliveries to lID to such amounts. <br />Despite lID's claim to be one of the most efficient water districts in the west, IID's waste has <br />been documented by our State Water Resources Control Board and by the Bureau of <br />Reclamation. <br /> <br />Because the Department of Interior has rejected all early termination provisions that could <br />end the QSA after a short period of time and conditions precedent that delay the effective date of <br />the QSA after signing, the QSA and related agreements need to be restructured into a package <br />that can be implemented upon signing and will last for more than the short term. In particular, <br />Imperial must clearly define its proposed water conservation program in detail so that the <br />environmental impacts of it can be accurately assessed and measures to mitigate those specific <br />environmental impacts can be developed and funding arrangements acceptable to all parties and <br />the state can be made. <br /> <br />MWD and Coachella must resolve the outstanding issues between them. <br /> <br />What is needed from the State of California to complete the QSA? <br />For the QSA to move forward the State of California must commit significant State resources <br />in the form of a $150 million loan guarantee satisfactory to Imperial and allocation of $200 <br />million of Proposition 50 bond funds to fund the environmental mitigation measures. <br />Additionally, the provisions ofr SB 482 must be renewed if we are to move forward. <br /> <br />What is needed from the federal Government to complete the QSA? <br />Additionally the Department of Interior must recognize that Metropolitan, San Diego and <br />Coachella cannot obligate themselves to an open ended commitment to continue the transfer <br /> <br />8 <br />