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002075 7R ^ C!C!T;'"1\/rPT V Tl\TfTl'f."'OTlllr .-.""'11,,"11,,"1",...,,,,'"'''' """T 't't'P" ~ '"""n A~""'''''~~~~'''''';A. ...~. ............U.........L V'0'..I..............-"--'---"'''"''' V.L~ ...&1._......,....." According to Mr. Ely, S. 2760 is modeled on Sccretary Udall's Pacific Southwest Water Plan Revised, and it includes the following features of the Udall Plan substantially unchanged: 1. Creation of a basin account, into which appropriations for construction would bc made by the Treasury, and into which would later feed the power revenues from Bridge and Marble Can- yon Dams, and from Hoover, Davis, and Parker Dams after they have paid for themselves. These revenues would assist in the re- payment of the construction costs of the projects authorized by the act, and of future projects to import water into the Colorado River Basin. 2. Construction of Bridge Canyon and Marble Canyon Dams, powerplants, and transmission lines. 3. Construction of the central Arizona aqueduct. 4. Construction of the Dixie Project, Utah. 5. Construction of the southern Nevada and Moapa (Nevada) projects. 6. Construction of salvage works on the main stream. 7. Creation of a regional commission, composed, as proposed in the Pacific Southwest Watcr Plan, of representatives of the federal government and Lower Basin states, to which would he added rep- resentatives of the Upper Basin states and of each state in any basin from which water would be imported. As Mr. Ely indicated: In most of these [provisions 1 we follow Secretary Udall's Pacific Southwest Water Plan. Wc differ from his plan primarily in our protection of existing uses and rcstrieting expansion of non-Indian irrigation on Indian reservations. The bill also proposes that the secretary carry out an investigation of all SOUrces from which water might be imported, not merely northern California rivers." . . . [The bill] is in strict accord with tbe decrec of the United States Supreme Court, [and] directs the Secretary of the Interior, in the administration of Article 2b 3, of the court's decree [the article which deals with shortages], to snbordinatc the water rights of the new Central Arizona Project to decree.d rights and other senior exist- ing water rig.hts in Arizona and Nevada, now served under water contract to the United States by diversion works heretofore con- structed and to 4.4 million acre-feet of such rights in California.'o This is basically the 4.4-million-acre-foot priority to California which was the Mosk Amendment to the orig.inal Haydeu-Goldwater bill, the Central Arizona Project Act, and was drafted by California's former Attorney General Stanley Mosk. The Pacific Southwest Project Act lists as its objectives: The purpose of this Act is to initiate thc execution of a regional plan to meet in full the deficiencics in water supply present and anticipated in both the upper and lower basins of the Colorado River, to authorize the construction of certain projects within the 14. Northcutt IDly, Statement to Senate and Assembly Water Committees, August 13, 1964, at 5. 15 lbid.~ at 7.