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operated for Program purposes will be required to pay a proportionate share of the <br /> anticipated OM&R costs by November 1 of each year, based on the operations proposed <br /> in the newly developed AOP. Tamarack Plan facilities will not be operated for the <br /> benefit of any entity unless the funds in that entity's operating fund account exceed a pre- <br /> determine balance. <br /> At the end of each water year, the cost accounting and water accounting associated with <br /> the operation of the Tamarack Plan will be reconciled. This process will include an <br /> accounting of the total number of acre feet pumped for the Recovery Program Account <br /> and the Water Administration Accounts, and will identify those entities that receive credit <br /> for water that was pumped and assigned to the Water Administration Accounts.' <br /> The OM&R costs for the Tamarack Plan facilities that were incurred over the previous <br /> water year will be totaled. These costs will include items such as, but shall not be limited <br /> to: power costs; electrical service, maintenance, and repair costs; pump and pump motor <br /> maintenance, repair, and replacement costs; pipeline maintenance, repair, and <br /> replacement costs; and maintenance associated with recharge facilities. <br /> Costs will be allocated to the various entities by the following formula: amount of well <br /> pumpage attributed to the entity, divided by the total number of acre-feet pumped by the <br /> facilities within the Tamarack Plan in that water year, with that quotient then multiplied <br /> by the total water year operation, maintenance, repair and replacement costs for the <br /> Tamarack Plan facilities. <br /> Credits will be given to individual entities for excess advanced payments made during the <br /> previous water year, which may be used to offset the costs calculated above. Remaining <br /> balances in an entity's account on October 31 of each year may be refunded or may be <br /> applied toward the following year's required advanced payment. Refunding of the <br /> remaining balance or the forward crediting of the remaining balance will be done at the <br /> entity's discretion and direction. <br /> 6 For the purpose of this proposal,payment will be based on the number of acre feet pumped by the <br /> facilities rather than the credits received from the pumping. Payment based on pumping will be definable at the end <br /> of each year; however,payment based on recharge credits received or accretions to the stream would result,by <br /> definition, in multi-year accounting. This is true if water was pumped to recharge basins with multi-year <br /> Streamflow Depletion Factors(SDF),credits or accretions to the stream from which may not occur for years. <br /> Payment for water actually pumped will simplify and streamline the accounting and remove controversy from this <br /> aspect of operations. <br /> 8 <br />