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<br />December 12, 2005 <br />Page 10 of 15 <br />Working Draft for Discussion <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />year. However, ICS credits could be used during a Quantified Surplus. <br />Any water spilled from Lake Mead would first come from credits <br />available for each agency at the beginning of the calendar year in <br />accordance with the formula described above. <br /> <br />5. Permission to use ICS from credits accumulated by exchange/demand <br />management would require a forbearance agreement between the <br />states and should require action by the Secretary pursuant to Articles II <br />(B)(2) and II (B)(6) of the Decree to release the ICS for use by the <br />entity that accumulated the credits. No other rights other than the <br />permission to use the ICS pursuant to Article II (B)(2) accrues. The <br />forbearance agreements may include restrictions and limitations to <br />enforce compliance with verification, a defined reduction to benefit the <br />system, a reduction for evaporation losses in previous years, and other <br />water accounting provisions. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Water Conserved by Improving System Efficiency <br /> <br />Description <br />Some Colorado River water is delivered to Mexico in excess of its Treaty <br />allocation because there is inadequate usable terminal storage at Senator <br />Wash Dam and water is bypassed around the Yuma Desalting Plant <br />(YDP). Reclamation is preparing design studies for improved terminal <br />storage and studying alternatives for reducing the bypass flows, including <br />operation ofthe YDP, but U.S. budgetary constraints are delaying <br />implementation of actions to remedy the water losses at the international <br />boundary. The states propose that improvements be funded by non- <br />federal entities and that water be made available to the funding entity for a . <br />period of years to offset the investments. <br /> <br />10 <br /> <br />