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the subdivider cannot proceed unless the Department finds that they have what is now designated as an "assured water supply" for "t lc"", t one hundred years. So now the deve lopmcn t is to pl.oCQud only whure there is a water supply and there was a wrinkle added to this in that an allocation of CAP water by the Secretary would constitute a presumption of an assured water supply unt~l the year 2000. 'I'he problem is that the Secretary hasn't made the allocations. Secretary Andrus's initial start on the allocations - the allocations to the Central Arizona Indian t.ribes - the state found totally un- acceptable. So here we are ten months later, we still don't have the allocations and we've got a lot of subdividers with big bucks out therehungup. This is where most of the flack has taken place. In tbis legislative sessioh there are a number of proposed amendmehts to the law, most of them very minor. One however, to try to get around this subdivision hiatus, would permit the Director to issue a certificate on an absolute commitment from the water company or the city that they will proceed with an un- conditional committment to contract for th~ CAP water and a finding by the Director under a'conservative approach that when the allocation process is completed, there will have been a sufficient CAP allocation to that area to provide an assured water supply for everything that is there now, including unfinished sub- divisions, plus the new subdivision. t think that will work be- cause since 1969 the Secretary and his successors have looked to the State of Arizona to decide how they want to allocate.its re- maining resource from the Lower Co.lorado River, except for the allocations to the Indians. I think that the Secretary will end up accepting our allocations and so I think we know how much these private water companies and cities are actually going to receiVe.. . B-20