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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Transfers and exchanges of one year or less are also <br />authorized. They are limited, however, to quantities of water <br />that represent the average beneficial consumptive use for the <br />prior 5 year period. Exchanges are not to include banking water <br />in federal reservoirs. <br /> <br />Additional factors are considered for temporary sales. <br />Agricultural sellers must maintain the capacity to receive water <br />during the short term period involved and domestic users have to <br />pay Hoover Dam cost-replacement charges. <br /> <br />E. Overruns and Underruns (415.13) <br /> <br />The draft regulations provide several measures to <br />improve scheduling and accounting for water use, including <br />provisions concerning overruns and underruns, water ordered but <br />not diverted, and reductions due to excess flows to Mexico. <br /> <br />Water scheduling procedures are set forth that may <br />require entitlement holders to submit annually "a schedule of <br />estimated diversion requirements and surface returns by month for <br />the following calendar year." Adjustments are proposed for <br />unintentional underruns and overruns. In the case of overruns, <br />offsets are made in the year following the overrun. In the event <br />of underrun, the water shall be "retained in storage and shall <br />become part of the future water supply available to the Lower <br />Basin states." In cases of "repetitive overruns" without self- <br />correction, the Regional Director may "review and modify the <br />user's weekly orders until the user's diversions have been <br />sufficiently reduced to adjust for the accumulated overruns." <br /> <br />.. <br />The draft also specifies procedures to be applied where <br />water is ordered but not diverted. The uses to which this water <br />will be put are ranked. The first recipients of such water are <br />entitlement hOlders, Mexico, and storage for entitlement holders. <br />Next in order is river regulation, followed by beneficial <br />consumptive use without charge against state apportionments or <br />user entitlements. The last priority listed is for river flows <br />below Imperial Dam or for power generation. Entities that have a <br />pattern of ordering water that is not diverted can have future <br />deliveries reduced and can be subjected to special scheduling <br />requirements. <br /> <br />Provision is also made for possible reduction in <br />deliveries due to excess flows to Mexico. <br /> <br />F. Wheelinq Non-System Water (415.15) <br /> <br />The draft regulations provide that there can be <br />wheeling of non-Colorado river water in the Colorado River within <br /> <br />- 8 - <br />