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<br />2-16 <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 />storage to the bank than they really intend to rent, knowing that the full amount of <br />storage made available will not be rented. 61 <br />All local rental pool prices include both a surcharge for the Water Resource <br />Board and a local committee administrative fee. The Board surcharge is currently $.20 <br />per acre-foot. Loca1 committee fees range from $.32 per AF in District 63 to $.75 per <br />AF in District 1." District 1 also has a higher surcharge of $.50 per AF for water rented <br />for uses below Milner Dam, and assesses an additional administrative fee on any lessor <br />who subsequently withdraws all or part of the water from the rental pool." Similarly, <br />District 65 assesses an additional administrative fee on any lessor who subsequently (in <br />the same year) rents replacement water from the bank." <br />The use of funds collected by the Board or by the local rental pool committee as <br />an administrative fee is subject to some broad statutory and regulatory limitations. <br />Water supply bank funds are credited to a "water management account" and are to be <br />used for improving water user facilities and efficiencies." Administrative fees collected <br />by the local committees must be used for public purposes set out in statutory provisions, <br />including "expenses of the district," district improvement, educational projects, and other <br />projects "designed to assist in the adjudication, conservation or more efficient distnbution <br />of water.'''' <br /> <br />Local rules may further limit or regulate the use of these funds. In District 1, the <br />district may use all rental funds on an as needed basis so long as the accrual of interest <br /> <br />61Telephone conversation with Ronald D. Carlson (Oct. I, 1993). There is no penalty for committing <br />storage subsequently withdrawn from the bank for use by the space holder. <br /> <br />'"See District 63 and 65 Procedures, at rule 8.1; and District 1 Procedures, at rule 8.2. <br /> <br />"District 1 Procedures, at rule 8.2 (B) (surcharge) and 8.2 (C) (withdrawal fee). <br /> <br />"District 65 Procedures, at rule 8.1. <br /> <br />"see IDAP A 37.02.03.035. Allocations from the water management account are governed by Idaho Code <br />A 42-1760 (1990). <br /> <br />"Idaho Code f 42-613A (Supp. 1993). <br />