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<br />"*> .: <br /> <br />00166'. <br /> <br />/"'\:~ <br />,....~<;:, <br />;~if::SI <br /> <br />J;1~~ <br />'.''-;.. <br /> <br />November 30, 1977 <br /> <br />AVAILABILITY OF WATER FOR CONTRACT <br />WITH EL PASO NATURAL GAS COMPANY <br />PURSUANT TO SECTION 11 OF THE ACT OF <br />JUNE 13, 1962, AUTHORIZING THE NAVAJO <br />. AND SAl" JUAN-CHAMA PROJECTS, NEW MEXICO <br /> <br />On November 26, 1963, the Commissioner of Reclamation sent a memorandum <br /> <br />to Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Power Development <br /> <br />which was approved December 5, 1963. That document, copy enclosed, <br /> <br />established the hydrologic basis for implementing the sale of municipal <br /> <br />and industrial (M&I) water from Navajo Reservoir under long-term contracts <br /> <br />as provided in the following part of section 11 of the authorizing Act <br /> <br />of June 13, 1962, for the Navajo and San Juan-Chama Projects (76 Stat. 96): <br /> <br />"No long-term contract, except contracts for the benefit of the <br /> <br />lands and for the purposes specified in sections 2 and 8 of this <br /> <br />Act, shall be entered into for the delivery of water stored in <br /> <br />Navajo Reservoir or of any other waters of the San Juan River and <br /> <br />its tributaries, as aforesaid, until the Secretary has determined <br /> <br />by hydrologic investigations that sufficient water to fulfill said <br /> <br />contract is reasonably likely to be available for use in the State <br /> <br />of New Mexico during the term thereof under the allocations made <br /> <br />in articles III and XIV of the Upper Colorado River Basin compact, <br /> <br />and has submitted such determination to the Congress of the <br /> <br />United States and the Congress has approved such contracts. <br /> <br />" <br />