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<br />i . oi.oI " <br /> <br />: o:ao; 3'7 <br /> <br />improvement projects and to encourage <br />protection and restoration of riparian area <br /> <br />resources. <br /> <br />b. Senate Bill 24 allowed allocation of conserved <br /> <br />water to instream and out-of-stream uses. <br /> <br />c. Senate Bill 140 created instream water rights, <br />allowed the Departments of Environmental <br />Quality, Fish and Wildlife, and Parks and <br />Recreation to apply for new rights, and provided <br />for the transfer to instream uses of out-of-stream <br /> <br />rights. <br /> <br />m. Senate Bill 24 <br /> <br />A. Purpose was to provide incentive to conserve <br /> <br />1. Under the prior appropriation doctrine, water users had <br />limited opportunity to benefit from efficiency <br />improvements. <br /> <br />2. Common perception is that part of a water right is <br /> <br />jeopardized by implementation of efficiency measures <br /> <br /> <br />because of the abandonment provisions in Oregon law. <br /> <br />3. ,'Senate Bill (SB) 24 allows a water user implementing <br /> <br />conservation measures to benefit from the water which <br /> <br />would be conserved. <br /> <br />4. ' Water users would be able to apply saved water to new <br />uses, to sell or lease the water to another party, or to <br /> <br />4 <br />