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<br />2-4 <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />Rights Agreement.' Following is a discussion of some important features of Idaho's <br />water bank program with reference to the statewide bank and the three rental pools. A <br />description of the new tnbal water bank follows this discussion. <br /> <br />2.1.2.1 Local rental pools <br />The Idaho Water Resource Board (Board) is authorized to appoint local rental <br />pool committees to operate storage rentals. These committees are required to develop <br />procedures for, among other matters: (1) setting priorities among competing applicants <br />for bank water; (2) managing rental pool funds; (3) setting annual rental price and <br />administration fees; (4) preventing injury to other water rights and to the local public <br />interest; (5) ensuring the conservation of water resources within the state of Idaho; and <br />(6) notifying the department and the watermaster of rentals involving a change in place <br />of use. An annual report of rental pool leases and rentals is submitted to the Board <br />which must approve any fee increase. Table 2.1.1 shows rental pool activity from 1990 <br />through 1993.\1 <br /> <br />2.1.2.2 Storage vs. natural flow water rights in Idaho <br />Under Idaho water rights administration, an irrigator can hold both natural flow <br />and storage water rights to satisfy his irrigation needs. II A storage water right is the <br />right to store water, when available, in a certain amount of reservoir space, for later <br />specified beneficial use. If water is stored under a storage right and not needed in a <br />given year it can be carried over if the holder of the right has available storage space. <br />Carry over combined with the following year's supply cannot exceed the amount of <br /> <br />'pUb. 1- No. 101-602, 104 Stat. 3059 (1990). <br /> <br />"In 1994, the Bureau of Reclamation assigned 371,480 acre-feet (AF) of space to the upper Snake River <br />rental pool !bat yielded 277,30S AF of water. 'Ibis water, along with 44,325 AF yielded from the aty of <br />Pocatello's assigned space, provided a rombined 321,630 AF of water downstream for salmon recovery. Non- <br />Bureau panics assigned an additional 74,732 AF !bat yielded 74,638 AF of water, all of which went to <br />agricultural users in the district. These figures may be adjusted slightly in the final acx:ounting for the season. <br />Telephone ronversation with Ronald D. Carlson (Aug. 15, 1994). <br /> <br />II~ Rental Report, at 17. <br />