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. . . ~ forth in the President's letter on water project financing. The Memorandum of ~ Understanding call s for: t:! ~. __ The creation of a technical team formed of Federal and non-Federal ~ representatives under direction of the National Academy of Sciences. ," _. __ The preparation of an inventory of existing criteria in use by Federal, State, and private agencies in the desiqn of dams, with particular focus on spillway capacities and earthquake hazards. The development of alternative criteria for establishing a minimum level of safety at federally designed, constructed or operated dams. The preparation of a comparative evaluation of the alternative criteria. ThE' National Academy Study is expected in December. The President's Fiscal Year 1985 Budget reQuest contains $7.2 million for desiqn-related work on the project. Construction work on features of Plan 6 cannot beqin before 1987, when desiqns are compl eted. The Department of the Interior will soon forward a Safety of Dams modification report to the Office of Management and Budget and will proceed with specific Safety Of Dams activities at Bartlett, Horse Mesa, and Mormon Flat Dams. Total estimated cost of Plan 6 construction is $1.053 billion. This includes $17.5 million for SOD modifications for Bartlett, Horse Mesa, and Mormon Flat Dams. The Central Arizona Project was authorized on September 30, 1968. The principal purpose of the project is to furnish water for irriqation, municipal, and industrial use in central Arizona and western New Mexico through the importation of water from the Colorado River and conservation of local surface waters. Recause of the size and complexity of the Central Arizona Project, it has been divided into severa' features serving senarate but interrelated functions. Except for Tucson Aqueduct Phase R, the main aqueduct system is currently under construction. Granite Reef Aqueduct is expected to be in operation in 1985. In 1968, Conqress authorized the constrllction of Orme Dam, or a suitable alternative,' to provide regulatory storage for the nroiect and flood control for Central Arizona. A draft EIS for Orme Dam in 1976 generated many serious objections includinq the flooding of much of the Fort McDowell Indian Reservation. Flooding in the Phoenix area increased public concern. In July 1978, a new study -- the Central Arizona Water Control Study -- was bequn by the Bureau of Reclamation to find a solution.