BOARD01954

• Board Meeting Date: 7/28/2003
• Description: CF Section - California Quantification Settlement Agreement and Nevada Proposal
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Representatives for the Governors of
Colorado River B~sin States
Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming

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July 7, 2003

The Honorable Gray DaVlS
Oovernor ofrhe State of California
State Capitol '
Sacramento, CA 95814

Re: Joint Statement of the Six Colorado River Basin States Regarding
California QU31ltification Settlement Agreement (QSA)

Dear Governor DavIs:

. The GovernoTs' representatives of me states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New
Mexico, Utah and Wyoming have reviewed the mOSt r:ecem set of draft
agreements constituting the Quantification Settlement Agreement (QSA)
between California's Colorado River Water contractors, which the California
agencies presented to us m March of 2003. The Southern California water
agencies with contracts for Colorado Rivet water have requested our commc:nts
concerning the current draft QSA, relative to the Section 5 requiremems of the
_J~leTl\'!lJ)~lus Guidelines (ISO) for the operation of Colorado River ReservOirs
adopted by the Secretary -of the Interior inLOOO. Dellvenes pursuant to tfi:eISD
are now suspended due to the failure of the California agencies to execute a
QSA by the end of 2002. .

We continue to support the ISO as the mutually agreed upon means of providing
California the "soft landing" it requested in order to implement the California
Plan. Our suPPOrt for the ISG depends upon the development and
implementation of a QSA and its required appurtenant agreements among the
California agencies.

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As we have expressed for several years. the operation of the ISG must be
preceded by, and based upon, Califomia's commitment to enter into a defmed,