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<br />December 12, 2005 <br />Page 12 of 15 <br />Working Draft for Discussion <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Mainstream Water Conserved by Extraordinary Conservation <br />Measures <br /> <br />Description <br />If a state provides for the temporary reduction of its basic apportionment <br />under the Boulder Canyon Project Act by extraordinary measures (after <br />deducting any payback of2001 and 2002 overruns and inadvertent <br />overruns associated with the IOPP), such as water system efficiency <br />projects, on-farm conservation, and fallowing agricultural land previously <br />irrigated, the reduction in consumptive use would be a credit applied <br />toward future use ofICS. [The methods of extraordinary conservation in <br />addition to fallowing are to be determined (e.g. canal lining and tailwater <br />return systems).] <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Conditions <br />1. The permission to use ICS is limited to credits available after a <br />reduction for the previous years' evaporation losses and the reduction <br />to benefit the system. The benefit to the system should be no greater <br />than 5% [still to be determined]. <br /> <br />2. The total amount ofICS would be limited. [This limit is still to be <br />determined.] The ICS may be transferred to another entity in the same <br />state. <br /> <br />3. The permission to use ICS would be suspended during a shortage, but <br />would be reinstated after the Lake Mead condition returns to normal as <br />long as credits for use ofICS are still available. <br /> <br />4. If Flood Control or Quantified Surplus is available in any year, the <br />permission to accumulate ICS credits would be suspended for that <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />12 <br /> <br />