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<br />."" <br /> <br />- <br />C' <br /> <br />c <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />GOVERNOR'S CENTRAL ARIZONA PROJECT ADVISORY COMMITTEE <br /> <br />POLICY FORMULATION AND ACTION RECOMMENDATIONS <br />OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE <br /> <br />The Governor's Central Arizona Project Advisory Committee evaluated a wide range <br />of issues related to state and federal water management policies and objectives and the <br />operations of the CAP. The Committee recognizes that its recommendations are of an <br />advisory nature only. However, the Committee believes that the make up of the <br />Committee and the statewide impact of the issue make the recommendations of this <br />Committee particularly valuable to those entities charged with the oversight and operations <br />of the CAP. It is particularly important that those elected officials and other decision <br />makers who are ultimately responsible for implementation of either statutes or policies <br />affecting the CAP should give careful consideration to the Committee's recommendations. <br /> <br />The Committee adopted a set of Policy Issues which formed the basis upon which <br />it developed and adopted the Committee's Action Recommendations. The Committee's <br />Policy Issues were adopted at its August 12, 1993 meeting. The Committee's' Action <br />Recommendations' were preliminarily adopted at its September 2, 1993 meeting. They <br />recommend specific action proposals concerning the financial, water marketing, Indian, and <br />environmental issues of the CAP. The recommendations were modified to reflect <br />comments received at public meetings and adopted in final form at the Committee's <br />September 27, 1993 meeting. <br /> <br />POLICY ISSUES <br /> <br />Policv Issue: Should state policy strive to protect Arizona's full Colorado River entitlement <br />to assure an adequate supply for future economic growth and development? <br /> <br />The CAP was envisioned as the primary water management tool for the <br />State to reduce its dependence on mined groundwater and to provide a <br />renewable water supply for municipal, industrial and Indian related economic <br />growth. The premise that the CAP would be a substitute for existing <br />groundwater use in the agricultural sector was one of the fundamental <br />justifications for the authorization and construction of the Project. Arizona <br /> <br />FINAL REPORT AND RECOMMENDA TlONS <br /> <br />20 <br />