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<br />0020\J4 <br /> <br /> <br />ARIZONA_ Y. CALIFORNIA AND l-'AUlInC SOUrrBWEST WATER PROBLEMS 67 <br /> <br />An offered amendment to the Central Arizona Project bill, the 80- <br />called "Mosk Amendment," named after its drafter, California's <br />former Attorney General Stanley Mosk, provided that the water supply <br />for the project was junior to 4.4 million acre-feet of existing California <br />uses in perpetuity. The Mosk Amendment was not accepted by Senators <br />Hayden and Goldwater, sponsors of the legislation. <br /> <br />2. PACIFIC SOUTHWEST WATER PLAN <br />August 1963 <br /> <br />The Pacific Southwest Water Plan was first presented to the Gov- <br />ernors of the Colorado River Basin States on August 26, 1963." Com- <br />ments on the Pacific Southwest Water Plan were requested from the <br />Governors of the several states pursuant to the Federal Flood Control <br />Act of 1944. During the period provided for this review this committee <br />held a joint hearing with the Senate Factfinding Committee on Water <br />Resources and issucd a report, Pacific Southwest Water Plan (Assembly <br />Interim Reports, Vol. 26, No.8 November 8, 1963). <br />The features of the original plan are enumerated briefly below inas- <br />much as its general concept is directly related to subsequent develop- <br />ments of regional planning proposals. The basic features of the original <br />plan were as follows: <br /> <br />Initial Phase <br />I. Construction of Bridge Canyon and Marble Canyon dams and <br />power plants on the Colorado River. <br />2. Enlargement of the California State Water Project to convey an <br />additional 1.2 million acre-feet of capacity water to southern California. <br />3. An immediate additional 1.2 million acre-feet enlargement of the <br />state's aqueduct through the Tehachapi Mountains to be utilized to con- <br />vey water develop cd in phase II construction of the project. <br />4. Construction of the Central Arizona Project. <br />5. Authorization of a largc (50 million gallons per day) desalting <br />plant on the seacoast in southern California, and an intensified study <br />under the Andel'son-Aspinall Act on the feasibility of additional plants. <br />6. Construction of the Southern Nevada Water Supply Project, first <br />stage, to provide up to 90,000 acre-feet annually by 1968 for the areas <br />of Boulder City, Henderson and Las Vegas. <br />7. Construction of the Dixie Project in Sonthwestern Utah to provide <br />about 60,000 acrc-feet annually beginning in 1970. <br />8. Construction of Hooker Dam Project in New Mexico (a unit of <br />the Central Arizona Project) with completion by 1974. <br />9. Expansion of Indian Irrigation Project facilities on the Colorado <br />River, Fort Mohave aYld Chemelmevi Reservations. <br />10. Water salvage and ground water recovery projects along the <br />mainstream of the Colorado River. <br /> <br />S The full report, Pacific Southwest Water Plan~ August 196::, includes a sketchy dis- <br />cussion of the features outlined in this section. <br /> <br /> <br />-- <br />