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<br />1 <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />3. <br /> <br />b. Water marketing and transfers between Upper and Lower Basins is illegal, <br />and not in the interest of the Upper Basin. <br />c. Upper Basin should be willing to discuss operational issues, such as <br />normal, surplus and shortage criteria, to make more water available in the <br />Lower Basin without impacting Upper Basin development. <br />Arizona Water Bank <br />a. Water diverted through the Central Arizona Project stored directly and <br />indirectly under authority of Arizona Water Bank, for future use and/or <br />exchange <br />b. Individual state water banks would have the authority to contract on a <br />long-term basis with other state banks for the lease or exchange of water, <br />through forbearance arrangement administered by the Bureau of <br />Reclamation <br />Bureau ofRec1amation Draft Regulations <br />a. Apply only in Lower Basin <br />b. Mechanism for interstate exchange of water through conservation (in- <br />state) or forbearance (interstate) <br />California 4.4 Plan <br />a. Goal to allow Metropolitan Water District to divert its full aqueduct <br />capacity within California's basic allocation of 4.4 mafi'yr. <br />b. "Lynch Pin Issues" <br />(I) San DiegolMWD wheeling agreement <br />(2) Quantification of priorities within the first 3.85 mafi'yr. <br />(3) Interim surplus criteria for river operations <br />(4) Salton Sea impacts <br /> <br />4. <br /> <br />5. <br /> <br />II. RIVER OPERATION ISSUES <br /> <br />A. 1968 CRBP Act, P.L. 90-537, Sec. 602(a)(1)(3) -- "storage of water not required for the <br />releases specified in clauses (1) and (2) ofthis subsection [602(a) Storage - Mexican <br />Treaty and Compact delivery releases] ...Provided, That water not so required to be stored <br />shall be released from Lake Powell: (i)to the extent it can be reasonably applied in the <br />States of the Lower Division to the uses specified in Article III (e) of the Colorado River <br />Compact, but no such releases shall be made when the active storage in Lake Powell is <br />less than the active storage in Lake Mead..." <br /> <br />B. 1970 Coordinated Long-Range Operating Criteria <br />1. Secretary to determine 602(a) storage by Sept. 30 of each year <br />2. Objective release from Powell to be minimum of 8.23 maf if: <br />a. Upper Basin Storage Reservoirs active storage forecast is less than the <br />602(a) storage determined by the Secretary for that year, or <br />b. Lake Powell active storage forecast for that date is less than the Lake <br />Mead active storage forecast for that date. <br />3. Lake Mead Operation <br /> <br />3 <br />