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<br />Attachment 1 <br /> <br />~=SNS <br /> <br />Statewide Water Supply Initiative <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Alternative Agricultural Transfers to <br />Permanent Dry-up Technical Roundtable <br /> <br />Mission Statement <br /> <br />Examine and illustrate if or to what extent Municipal & Industrial <br />and other water uses can be met with agricultural rights on a <br />reliable basis without the permanent dry-up of irrigated <br />agricultural land or impairing property rights <br /> <br />Key Questions <br /> <br />Alternative Agricultural Transfers - Legal! Water Rights! Institutional! Political <br /> <br />1. Are legislative/regulatory changes needed to implement the proposed program(s)? <br /> <br />- What is/ are the legal impediments in statute that require change in law for fallowing? <br />Identify current impediments that exist in legal and regulatory system to Alternative <br />Agricultural transfers. <br /> <br />. 2. What is the water court process related to program(s) approach and implementation? <br /> <br />- Do the same rules apply if the Municipal & Industrial user is from out of the state? (e.g., <br />can a west slope irrigator fallow land to lease water to Las Vegas or L.A. Metropolitan <br />District?) <br /> <br />3. Should the programs be administered by the end user, governmental agency, or by the <br />agricultural water rights owners or ditch and reservoir companies? <br /> <br />4. Can the program(s) be successful if the agriculhlral user is not required to bind the land and <br />water to irrigation? <br /> <br />- What is the required permanency or certainty that a water supplier must require on an <br />agreement for land fallowing? <br /> <br />5. What program conditions are needed to ensure that private property rights are not <br />impaired? <br /> <br />- What is the required permanency or certainty that a water supplier must require on an <br />agreement for land fallowing? <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />6. Within a fallowing program, will the permanency for farmer and water provider be <br />contractual? Providing certainty for the farmer that land will stay in production and a water <br />supply for water provider understanding that water may not be available to meet all future <br />growth? <br />