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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />8/18/82 <br /> <br />Draft Outline of Water Rights Issues <br />for <br />Consideration of Water Rights Subcommittee <br /> <br />I. Introduction <br /> <br />A. Salinity control projects could result in depletions <br />of surface and tributary ground waters by various <br />means: <br /> <br />1. Deep well injection into non-tributary aquifers <br /> <br />2. Industrial use (evaporation, process water, slurry <br />pipeline, etc.) <br /> <br />3. Non-beneficial evaporation <br /> <br />B. Some salinity control projects could result in <br />reductions in present. levels of depletions (i.e., <br />salvage water). <br /> <br />C. Salinity control projects must proceed in conformance <br />with procedural and substantive state water laws and <br />the . Law of the River.. <br /> <br />II. Issues <br /> <br />A. Water use within a single state <br /> <br />1. Use of water by a salinity control project may not <br />be recognized as a beneficial use under state <br />law. This will be a function of the applicable <br />state statutes and administrative and judicial <br />interpretations thereof. <br /> <br />2. Who should obtain necessary water rights? Do they <br />have the authority to obtain water rights? <br /> <br />a. Federal agency? <br />b. State agency? <br />c. Other? <br /> <br />3. Are there any procedural issues? <br /> <br />B. Export of water from a state may be prohibited or <br />conditioned by state statutes. <br /> <br />C. Accounting of depletions for compact purposes <br /> <br />1. <br /> <br />In-state beneficial uses are not <br /> <br />an issue600624 <br /> <br />(over) <br />