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<br />changing information and for maintaining the authorized purposes of the Navajo Unit, consistent <br />with existing laws, compact apportionments and Indian Trust responsibilities, <br /> <br />2. BACKGROUND <br /> <br />The Navajo Unit is one of four key features of the CRSP, intended to develop the water <br />resourccs of the Upper Colorado River Basin, The Navajo is operated in accordance with the CRSP <br />Act and other applicable Reclamation laws, <br /> <br />The purposes for which the Navajo Unit is operated, and laws authorizing those purposes are <br />shown in Table I, <br /> <br />Table 1. Authorized Purposes of the Navajo Unit and Enabling Legislation <br /> <br />PURPOSE LAW <br />Municipal, Industrial and 1939 Reclamation Project Act (P ,L, <br />Miscellaneous 76-260) <br />Flood Control 1939 Reclamation Project Act & 1956 <br /> CRSP Act (P.L. 84-485) <br />Improving Navigation 1939 Reclamation Project Act & 1956 <br /> CRSP Act <br />Regulating the flow of the Colorado 1956 CRSP Act <br />River <br />Reclamation of Arid Lands 1956 CRSP Act <br />Generation and Sale of Electric Power 1956 CRSP Act <br />Fish & Wildlife Section 8 of the 1956 CRSP Act; 1965 <br /> Federal Water Project Recreation Act <br /> (P ,L, 89-72); and the 1958 Fish & <br /> Wildlife Coordination Act (P.L. 85- <br /> 624) <br />Recreation 1965 Federal Water Project Recreation <br /> Act (P ,L, 89-72) <br />Improving Water Quality 1974 Colorado River Basin Salinity <br /> <br />Draft May 15,2000 <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br />Plan of Approach for Navajo Dam Operations EIS <br /> <br />C~I)('7 <br />...l.._.v <br />