WSP03596

• File Number: 8275.100
• Description: Legislation and Litigation -- SALINITY -- Federal Legislation
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/3000
• Title: Statement of the Committee of Fourteen on Behalf of the Governors of the Seven Colorado River Basin States on HR 12165 Before the House of Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - date unknown
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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It fails tD include necessary apprDpriatiDns for the

Coachella Canal lining feature.

Lining of the

CDachella Canal is a critical element of the progr~ and
must be authorized and implemented on schedule if the

states are to be prDtected.

Its fate should not be

left to.a separate action by the Congress.

3. Itfails tD provide for authDrization and ioplementatiDn Df

tre grolL'ld;rater p1l.'1ping program to protect against loss of
U. S. waters as a result Df pumping by the lfu~iean

government at the newly installed San .Luis well field.

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,fuile the Administration in R.n.

recognizes the

governn:ent I S responsibility to replace operational and
reject Haters from the desalting plant, actual
replacement is tied to the provisions of Sec. 202 of
the ColaradoRiver Basin Project ..'\.ct, which provisions
recognize the entire 11e:,ican Treaty bmeen on the

Colorado River as a national responsibility, effective
upon auglOentation of the ColDrado River in the a",ount

of 2.5 million acre-feet per year.
to Hait for relief on desalter losses until 2.5 million

To aSle the states

acre-feet pe~ year have been added to the Hi ver ,-muld be
unreasonable, especially in light of the fact that the
Office of Hanagement and Budge"- has quashed or seriously

maimed all studies in progress or proposed to determine
!'leans of augmenting the Colorado River in such 8.:!lounts.

The COrnrlittee of Fourteen recDgnizes that Hinute 2lt-2 mal':e5 a

n~ber of significant concessions to Mexico; nevertheless, we

I/Duld like tD be able tD help the United States hDnor the p~cnises

it !'lade in Hinute 2lt-2.

For this ~eason, lrre believe tho.t the ,.rater
users of the ColD~ado River Basin, and all the peaple of the

Unitc;d States Hill be best s","ved by the cnactnent Df 11.:1. 12165,

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