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003210 Director is required to release a new management plan for each successive ten years. Now as a part of the management plan - and here is where things really get tough - the Director must esta- blish a water duty for each farm, a duty from all water sources not just groundwater. Duties are to be based upon historic cropping and land use patterns, taking into account the rotation of lands and whether the farmer was irrigating all the land all the time . historically, crop water consumption, soil types and farming practices that represent a reasonably achievable level of irrigation efficiency. Similarly, the Director must establish reasonable levels of per capita consumption [or each of the cities and private water company service areas within the active management area. The Director then is required as a part of the management plans to tighten the valve with each suceeding plan, to reduce the water duties.for each field and the per capita consumption rate for each of the cities and industries. Now I suspect that no. Director will survive more than one management plan. In the early years, the main thrust of the management plan is conservation and this is in the Jimmy Carter sense, reduction in water use rates. During the second management plan period - and that would be 1990 to the year 2000 - the Director may propose programs to augment supply, such as watershed manage- ment, artificial recharge of flood waters, weather modification, whatever; and after year 2006, the Director may purchase and retire agricultural lands to assist in achieving balanced use and supply. The Director may levy a groundwater withdrawal fee of up to $5 ,In acre-foot for all water pumped within an active management area except for that pumped by the exempt domestic wells. He is B-17 '. <"