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Agenda Item 8g September 24-25,2001 Board Meeting Page 3 of5 . On the other hand, the "interim period" mav not be over if in declaring the surplus the conserved water can be identified and accounted for or if California does not submit any water orders to Reclamation that go unfulfilled. We have reviewed the CRBSCA and the language in Section 102(a) is specific about the duration of the interim period for temporary use of water conserved by lining a portion of the Coachella Canal: "", The interim period shall commence on completion of construction or lining said canal and shall end the first year that the Secretary delivers main stream Colorado River water to California in an amount less than the sum of the quantities requested by (1) the California agencies under contracts made pursuant to section 617d of this title, and (2) Federal establishments to meet their water rights acquired in California in accordance with the Supreme Court decree in Arizona against California (376 U.S, 340)." Furthermore, in House of Representatives Report No. 93-1057 (May 22, 1974) on the CRBSCA at page 16, it states regarding this issue: . ".., The use of credits for the Coachella Canal salvage by the United States is temporary and ends when the Secretary of the Interior delivers less water to California users than requested bv those users, This is expected to occur when the Central Arizona Project becomes operative. The United States will obtain no permanent right to the use of the water salvaged through Coachella Canal lining or reconstruction. " Special Ambassador Herbert Brownell stated at page 31 of his "Report of the President's Special Representative for Resolution of the Colorado River Salinity . Problem with Mexico" (December 28, 1972): ",.,The fCoachella Valley County Irrigation} District and the appropriate authorities of the State of California have expressed their concurrence in the use by the United States of the water which could be salvaged and in the reduction of diversions to the Coachella Canal by a like amount until California's Colorado River diversions are reduced to 4,4 million acre-feet annually - that is, most likely until the Central Arizona Irrigation Project begins diversions, which will not be before 1982..." A similar statement by Representative Johnson of California appears in the Congressional Record for June 11, 1974, at page 18790: .. ",.. When the central Arizona project is completed and the State of California is obliged, in accordance with the terms of the Supreme Court decree in Arizona against California, to reduce its diversions from the Colorado River to 4.400,000 acre-feet annually, the use of Coachella salvage water for replacement will terminate, By then a source of replacement water is expected to have been identified as pointed out above, "