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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Attachment 1 <br /> <br />~=SNS <br /> <br />Statewide Water Supply Initiative <br /> <br />Alternative Agricultural Transfers - financial <br /> <br />1. What are the costs to organize and administer a program and who are the parties that could <br />contribute to the costs? <br /> <br />How can public and third-party beneficiaries by contributors to provision of those <br />benefits (e.g., "leaks" and "inefficiencies" that provide amenity, tax value, and <br />environmental benefits? <br /> <br />Are annual payments made to only the agricultural users fallowing for that year or to all <br />program participants? <br /> <br />Are there regional or statewide benefits to an interruptible or rotating fallowing <br />program, such as preservation of open space or providing for environmental flows? <br />Should a portion of the program costs be borne by the public or third parties? <br /> <br />2. What portion of the total land and water rights value will need to be paid to an agricultural <br />user as compensation for enrollment in a program? <br /> <br />Are there additional incentives needed for agricultural users to participate in these <br />programs when their rights can be sold for large sums to Municipal & Industrial users? <br /> <br />3. How do the annual local economic impacts of a rotating fallowing program compare with a <br />permanent dry-up that includes voluntary payment in lieu of taxes? (Loss of local tax <br />revenues for schools, government, etc.) <br /> <br />Alternative Agricultural Transfers - Technical <br /> <br />1. Are there suitable irrigated lands (yield and water quality)? If not, how do the infrastructure <br />costs of a permanent dry-up transfer? <br /> <br />How does geography (e.g., stateline vs. upstream water right) affect alternatives? <br /> <br />2. Water Quality Impacts - What effects will reduced river flows have on water quality issues <br />in the future - TMDLs, salinity, etc.? <br /> <br />EP A TMDL standards for streams (e.g., temperature that requires stream flows). <br />