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<br />. <br /> <br />December 12, 2005 <br />Page 13 of 15 <br />Working Draft for Discussion <br /> <br />year. However, ICS credits could be used during a Quantified Surplus. <br />Any water spilled from Lake Mead would first come from the credits <br />accumulated in accordance with the formula shown above. <br /> <br />Tributary 'Vater Conserved by Retired System Agriculture <br /> <br />Nevada has requested that permission to obtain credits and use IeS as a result <br />of the retirement of tributary agriculture previously irrigated (pre-compact <br />Virgin and Muddy River water uses). [No resolution of this issue has been <br />reached.] <br /> <br />tong-Term Augmentation of System Supply <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />If the Colorado River system is augmented by a joint basin-wide state effort <br />and/or federal effort, credits would not be obtained by that effort for future use <br />as ICS. Such water supply would be for the benefit of the entire system and <br />used to reduce the likelihood of shortages and to meet the Mexican treaty <br />obligations. <br /> <br />As a result of joint state and/or federal investigations, projects may be <br />identified that might be funded by one or more states for the purpose of <br />providing new supplies. In particular, Nevada may fund a particular <br />augmentation project that would be used to replace short-tenn water <br />conservation through system efficiencies, for example a new desalting plant. <br />The mechanism for the exchange and diversion of the water could be similar <br />to the current inter-state ofT-stream storage agreements, utilizing res <br />apportionment. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />1, <br />