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<br />.' ( ( <br />This provision relates to the sale of "surplus w~ter". It is addressed <br /> <br />to situations where water becomes available because of deferred project <br /> <br />purposes. <br /> <br />All of the r"quests in the Ilasin for future industrial and municipal <br /> <br />water add to about 2,700,000 acre-feet. Of the total amount of water <br /> <br />needed to develop the lignite and coal reserves in the States ,of Hyoming, <br /> <br />,~iontana, and North Dakota, it would require but 15 percent of the average <br /> <br />annual flOli at Garrison, 12 percent at Sioux City, and 5 percent at the <br /> <br />mouth of the Missouri River. The Hater Supply Group for the Ad Hoc <br /> <br />COlllIDittee rcports that of the acreage originally authorized to be irrigatcd <br /> <br />under the PSMBP, some 1,541,000 have been detcrmined to be infeasible for <br /> <br />irrigation and plans for their irrigation arc to be in a deferred status. <br /> <br />An additional 221,000 acres of new land, and 138,000 acres of land requiring <br /> <br />a supplemental supply, ,nlich were originally authorized to be served under <br /> <br />the PSNllP, are currently considered to be infeasible for development and <br /> <br />may also be placed in a deferred status. <br /> <br />The Water Supply Group's data indicates that upstream depletions which <br /> <br />could result from maximum M&I use are not substantially greater than tlle <br /> <br />upstream depletions which would have resulted from the planned developments <br /> <br />which were authorized under the PSHBP. <br /> <br />As a consequence, upstream H&I depletions will place no substantially <br /> <br />greater burden on other functions of the PSI-IEP th"n was originally planned. <br /> <br />And upstream M&I use will increase the revenues of the PSI-illP so that the <br /> <br />repayment burden of other ftmctions of the PSHilP will be lightened. <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />.,J <br />