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<br />. <br /> <br />;.-., <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />r"...... <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />8-16 <br /> <br />MWD <br />METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRIC I Ur SOUTHEflN CALIFORNIA <br /> <br />January 6, 1999 <br /> <br />To: <br /> <br />Board ofDireclolS <br /> <br />From: <br /> <br />MWD Negotiating Team <br /> <br />Approaches to Tmplementing Metropolitan's l'olicy Regarding R.t:yuired Volumc <br />vi Colorado River Water Supplies <br /> <br />Subject: <br /> <br />RECOMMENOA TlON(S) <br /> <br />TIle Negotiating Committee recommends that the Board endorse the attached Policy Position <br />Paper, entitled ~ AppJ'oach~ to lmplementins I'olicy Regt>~dillll Required Volume of Colorado <br />River Water Supplies," and authorize the Board's Negotiating Committee and the General <br />Manager to communicate this pOlicy to interested parties and to wJrtinue ncgotilltions to fulfill <br />the Board's fundamental Colorado River policy. <br /> <br />DET AlLED REPoRT <br /> <br />In December 1996,. Secretary of the Interior J:51'\1Ce :Babbitt rnlIl1t: ll.pcc:c;h ~gmdins OWforni,.'. <br />ll3C of surplus Colorado River water. It was a warning that California must develop Ii plan to <br />reduce 113 u:s. of Colotado River W31er, which is of significant concern to the other Colorado <br />River Basin States, In May 1997, Stab: W81cr ResoUlCes Director David Kennedy was put in <br />charge of deveJopinll a California Plan for Color8do River Water (plan). This Plan is still being <br />developed tbroueh a process involving Metropolium, City of Los Angeles, San Diego, and the <br />California agriculturtl.l water agencies using Colorado River water. The Plan is divided Into two <br />pbasCli. l'ha3c I, to be completed by 2015, OlIn" for. (1) continuation of the transfer of 107,000 <br />acre-feet per year of conserved water to MWD frulll lID; (2) 1nInsfer of up to 200,000 acre.feet <br />per year of conserved water from lID to San Diego; (3) lining of the All Ame1'iCllI\ and Coachella <br />Canals saving about 92,000 acre.feet per year; (4) re-operations oCLil.e Mead; (5) conjunctive <br />use storage amI dry YCIlf transfcrs; and (6) quantification of the agricultural water entitlement <br />within California Fhase I is Intended to provide Metrol'olitJl!1 the ability to keep its CR A at full <br />capacity and reduce California's use of Colorado River water fruUl 5.2 to 4.8 million acre-feet <br />Phase II of the Plan, while not a.~ defined as Phase t, would involve additional transfers ill Older <br />to gel California down to 4.4 million acre.feet, <br />