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develop management plans for each active management area. The first of these plans is to be promulgated by January 1 of 1983 [or COIIU1lcnt ilnd to uucomc cffoctivo in JilnU<lry of 1985. Now 1 should have pointed out to you earlier, the goal of these manage- ment plans for the Phoenix, Tucson and Prescott active management areas where we are talking basically about urban economies even though there is a lot of agriculture left in these basins, we are talking about a municipal-industrial economy that we are attempting to protect - the statutory goal of those three active management areas is to achieve safe yield, a balance between the available water SUPply and the consumption of the water supply, by the year 2025, using the CAP water supply and conservation and other means. In Pinal County, which has basically an agricultrual ecopomy, there is very little municipal-industrial economy in the portion that is in the Pinal AMA, the goal there is planned depletion much along the lines of the New Mexico statutes. It may cha~ge in the future if the area begins to urbanize but the differ- ence here is in recognition of the fact that it is an agricultural economy. If you force it to a safe-yield type of operation, it would destroy the economy. But if you leave it and let economics take its course and extend the life of that basin through a planned depletion type of operation, by the time the depths to groundwater a~d pumping energy costs have risen to drive agriculture off the basin, a substantial amount of water will still remain for anybody that wants to continue to live there. The first plan that is to be promulgated by 1983 for comment and modification and then becomes effective in Janaury of 1985, survives only until January 1 of 1990. It is basically a five-year plan. Thereafter, two years be~ore the next decade begins, the 1'3-16