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<br />- <br /> <br />~5 <br /> <br /> <br />12197 <br /> <br /> <br />D. Examples of Possible Interstate Transactions <br /> <br />The following example will help to illustrate a potential transaction, Assume that an authorized <br />entity in the State ofCalifomia or Nevada (acting as a Consuming State) wants 50,'000 acre-feet <br />(at) of water stored on its behalf to develop storage credits for future use. The entity would enter <br />into an interstate storage agreement with an authorized entity in the Storing State (for example, <br />the State of Arizona) and obtain the approval ofthe Secretary. The Consuming State entity <br />would pay the Storing State entity to divert and store the water oirstream. The water to be stored <br />would be unused Arizona entitlement or unused apportionment of the Consuming State that <br />would otherwise have been left in the mainstream, or a combination of both. The Storing State <br />entity would divert and store the '!8;oo'O af of Colorado River water oirstream in Arizona for the <br />credit of the Consuming State entity. The water could be stored, for example, by actually putting <br />it into the ground (direct recharge),d>v StOnngjtiI!. an off stream s!Liface reservoirJor by_--.. <br />~changingjt for,,groundwater that~rwise would be withdrawn and consumed (ingire~ <br />recharge). "The water diverted and stored off stream in Arizona will be accounted for as being <br />consumptively used in that same year in Arizona, in accordance with Article V of the Decree. <br />The interstate agreement would identifY the type(s) and location(s) of storage facility(ies) <br />utilized. The Consuming State entity would accrue credits in the amount of water stored. <br /> <br />In the future when the Consuming State entity desires to use all or a portion of the storage credits <br />accumulated from the stor~e of the 'SO,OOO af, it would notifY the Storing State entity and the <br />Secretary in advancJr"'fh~ storing entity in the State of Arizona would then intentionally create <br />up to 50,000 af of unused apportionment by decreasing its consumptive use of Colorado River <br />water in the requested quantity, The Secretary, through Reclamation, in accordance with the <br />interstate storage agreement, would operate the Colorado River within its current and projected <br />routine opera!ions co~istent with the provisions of the BCP A and the Decree and release and <br />deliver up to ~,&50 ar~ Arizona unused apportionment from the mainstream of the Colorado <br />River for diversion by the Consuming State entity, as allowed in the Decree. The water <br />delivered in satisfaction of storage credits will be accounted for as consumptive use of Arizona's <br />unused apportionment in that same year in the Consuming State, in accordance with Article V of <br />the Decree. <br /> <br />E. Related Reclamation Actions <br /> <br />Reclamation completed a Final Environmental Impact Statement (PElS) for "Water Allocations <br />and Water Service Contracting for the Central Arizona Project (CAP)" in 1982. The PElS <br />analyzed the environmental consequences of the allocation of waters and of water service <br />contracting for Arizona's remaining entitlement of Colorado River water to be delivered by the <br />CAP. The PElS cited Arizona's new 1980 Groundwater Management Act (ACT) as a related <br />non-Reclamation action. The Act created four Active Management Areas (AMA) in specific <br />basins that experienced extensive ground-water declines and established goals to control their <br />water development and use. <br />