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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />is not executed. Reclamation indicated that non-repayment is not acceptable. Also, Reclamation <br />indicated that California agricultural agencies are projected to use their full 3.85 mafentitlement by <br />December I, 2002. <br /> <br />Final EIS Implementation Agreement. Inadvertent Overrun and Payback Policy <br /> <br />As I mentioned above, Reclamation has completed the Final Environmental Impact Statement <br />associated with the Secretarial Implementation Agreements and Inadvertent Overrun and Payback <br />Policy and related federal actions. A read-only version of the Final EIS is available at <br />htto:l/www.lc.usbr.l!ov/lcrivoos.html. No decision will be made on the proposed action for 30 days <br />after the formal notice of availability has been published in the Federal Register. Reclamation <br />anticipates that a Record of Decision will be signed by the Secretary of the Interior prior to <br />December 31, 2002. <br /> <br />Quantification Selllement Agreement <br /> <br />As reported in several newspapers and other news outlets, the key parties to the <br />Quantification Settlement Agreement (QSA) with the help of Speaker Emeritus Robert Hertzberg <br />were able to reach tentative consensus (subject to approval by each agency's Board of Directors) on <br />the "Summary Terms Sheet" that will formulate the basis of the QSA. The key component of the <br />75-year long agreement is that for the first fifteen years the Imperial Irrigation District-San Diego <br />County Water Authority water transfer cannot materially effect the Salton Sea or its environs. This <br />provision, along with proposals to temporarily fallow farmland in the Imperial Valley to provide the <br />fifteen-year period where the Sea's elevation and salinity will not be effected by the water transfer, <br />is one of the most controversial dements of the terms of the proposed agreement. <br /> <br />The parties have until December 31, 2002, to actually sign the QSA. Public meetings on <br />different aspects of the key terms, including baseline inflow assumptions used to arrive at the fifteen- <br />year Salton Sea "safe period" will be held. Pursuant to provisions of SB 482, the Department of <br />Water Resources will be involved in several of the public meetings discussing the baseline inflow <br />assumptions and subsequent modeling of the Sea's elevation and salinity for this fifteen-year period. <br /> <br />State Water Resources Control Board Revised Droft Order <br /> <br />On October 21, 2002, the California State Water Resources Control Board (State Board) <br />released a second redline-strikeout draft of the proposed order related to the Imperial Irrigation <br />District-San Diego County Water Authority Transfer. The second draft incorporated comments and <br />suggestions from reviewers, as well as statements made at the October 16,2002, public hearing. <br /> <br />Mr. Harris attended a public hearing held by the State Board in Sacramento on October 28, <br />2002. At the hearing the State Board issued an errata sheet associated with the October 21, 2002 <br />draft of the proposed order. Additionally, the State Board heard testimony from several interested <br />parties related to air quality and environmental issues. <br /> <br />The State Board recently released the Final Order and the process which will culminate in <br />the State Board's final decision in the matter. It is understood that petitioners may submit "motions <br /> <br />8 <br />