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<br />001535 <br /> <br />':1~~>~ <br /> <br />the Upper Basin's use of its Colorado. River Compact -- apportioned <br /> <br />. <br />" <br /> <br />waters, the four storage units are to be used to ensure Compact -- <br /> <br />required deliveries to the Lower Basin. The Act also authorized <br /> <br />the construction of participating projects, smaller reclamation <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />projects that will help each state develop its Compact <br />apportioned waters. The Act contemplated generation of hydropower <br /> <br />and established the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund to defray the <br /> <br />( <br /> <br />costs of operation, maintenance, replacement and emergency <br /> <br />expenditures for all facilities of the Colorado River storage <br /> <br />Project and participating projects and to repay the costs of each <br /> <br />unit. <br /> <br />Under this plan a portion, but importantly not all, of the <br />major water projects required to irrigate Upper Basin lands and <br />serve Upper Basin cities have been developed. While the mainstream <br />facilities are in place many of the participating projects <br /> <br />(required to actually irrigate Upper Basin lands) have not been <br /> <br />constructed. <br /> <br />Indeed, Congress in the recently enacted Omnibus <br /> <br />Water Bill, HR 429, took specific steps to deauthorize a number of <br /> <br />projects in the Upper Basin. <br /> <br />Also, Congress in HR 429 inserted <br /> <br />sunset provisions on cert.ain projects, far example a number of <br /> <br />projects in Utah which had been authorized by Congress for the last <br /> <br />thirty years were subjected to severe development limitations never <br /> <br />imposed on major Lower Basin projects. Under Congress' plan for <br /> <br />Utah, in order to save facilities essential to assure the 19"22 <br /> <br />Compact depletions, Utah farmers will have the near impossible task <br /> <br />9 <br />