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<br />Attachment 2 <br /> <br />Alternative Aqricultural Transfers - Technical <br />1, Are there suitable irrigated lands (yield and water quality)? If not, how do the infrastructure costs of a permanent dry-up transfer? <br />How does geography (e.g., stateline vs. upstream water right) affect alternatives? <br />2. Water Quality Impacts - What effects will reduced river flows have on water quality issues in the future - TMDLs, salinity, etc.? <br />EPA TMDL standards for streams (e.g., temperature that requires stream flows). <br /> <br />Alternative Agricultural Transfers TRT Summarv of Work Products <br />Alternative Agricultural Provide work product focusing on the implementability from a legal perspective of various alternative agricultural <br />Transfers Legal/Water transfer options (Interruptible Supply Agreements, Purchase by End User with Guaranteed Leaseback under <br />Rights / Institutional / Defined Conditions, Permanent Rotating Fallowing Program, Reduced Agricultural Consumptive Use through <br />Political Questions Efficiencv or Croooino While Maintainino Historic Return Flows, Water Banks <br />Alternative Agriculturai Review case studies from California's Imperial Valley and gather summarize the financiai aspects of these case <br />Transfers Financial study, Develop a description of the types of costs associated with alternative agricultural transfer options <br />Questions (Administrative, Legal, Infrastructure, Engineering (transit loss calculations, conveyance, etc), Maintenance <br /> Resource costs) <br />Alternative Agricultural Developed definitions for the various types of alternative transfer options to provide a common understanding for the <br />Transfers Technical TRT, Developed a methodology for identifying and organizing potential alternative agricultural transfer options based <br />Questions on suitable water supply (irrigated lands), identifying gap areas (using SWSI report) and identify transportation and <br /> storace ootions needed to develoo ootion. <br /> <br />Page 4 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br />