BOARD02599

• Board Meeting Date: 11/23/1998
• Description: Colorado River Basin Issues - Glen Canyon Adaptive Management Program - Status Report - Letter from the Secretary of the Interior to Al Gore
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
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OCT I 1998

. Honorable AI Gore
President of the Senate .
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Mr. President:

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The Department of the Interior is pleased to tranSmit to the Congress the enclosed Report to .
Congress: Operations of Glen Canyon Dam Pursuant to the Grand Canyon Protection Act of 1992.
This report was prepared pUrsuant to the provisions of Title XVllI-Grand Canyon Protection Act
of Public Law 102-575, which states:

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. Each year after the date of the adoption of criteria and operating plans pursuant to
paragraph (1), the Secretary shall transmit to the Congress and to the Governors of the
Colorado River Basin States a report, separate from and in addition to the report specified
in section 602(b) of the Colorado River Basin Project Act of 1968 on the preceding year
and the projected year operations undertaken pursuant to this Act.

Therefore, this is the first Report to Congress since the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management
Work Group was established in January 1997 and the operating criteria for Glen Canyon Dam were
put into place. By adopting the Report to Congress: Operations of Glen Canyon Dam Pursuant to
the Grand Canyon Protection Act of1992 (Water Years 1997 and 1998) and its Appendices, r am
adopting the Glen Canyon Dam Annual Plan of Operations for Water Year 1998 (Appendix C of the
Report).

Sincerely,

Enclosure

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