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ApPENDIX I ISSUES OF ALLOCATIONS: RECONCILING SUPPLY WITH DEMAND DONALD K. FREVERT I CRAIG PHILLIPS BUREAU OF RECLAMATION DENVER, CO No specific comment TOM LINCOLN BUREAU OF RECLAMATION ARIZONA PROJECTS OFFICE PHOEN IX, AZ No specific comment No NAME SPECIFIED SAN DIE:GO COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY SAN DIEGO, CA Incentives for agricultural water users to become more efficient. No NAME SPECIFUtD SANTA CLARA CITY SANTA CLARA, UT Conservation of water and its efficient use is a major issue. Groundwater storage scenarios need to be developed - ways to improve quality and quantity of drinking water is also a key issue. D. LARRY ANDERSON DEPT. OF NATURAL RESOURCES, Dlv. OF WATER RESOURCES SALT LAKE CITY, UT There exist real opportunities for intrastate and interstate marketing of water, particularly rural-to-urban in Upper Basin states, and Upper Basin states to California and Nevada. Improving efficiency in water use always entails cost, and (absent legislative mandate) will occur only if the saved water can produce benefits in excess of these costs. Constraints to water transfers are based more on perceived political and philosophical considerations than on econom- ic or other tangible factors. GEORGE BRITTON I SILL CHASE CITY OF PHOENIX PHOENIX, AZ Will the Administration atlempt to create, through regula- tion, a market mechanism for the interstate sale of Colorado River water? Will the Administration attempt to issue the May 1994 pro- posed regulations which would have created a lltop water" bank in Lake Mead for conserved water and set up a process for leasing Colorado River water between Lower Basin States? Will Arizona attempt to block such regulations through liti- gation as they threatened to do in response to the proposed May 1994 regulations? Will the negotiations among Lower Basin States and the Colorado River Indian Tribes, which are currently at an impasse, start again? Will the other parties agree they are not seeking a perma- nent water transfer of a portion of Arizonals Colorado River entitlement as Arizona has insisted as a precondition to resuming negotiations? BUREAU OF RECLAMATION MEETING SALT LAKE CITY, UT nUse it or lose itll is a negative statement. We don1t see that philosophy here. We've never discussed water use in the Iluse it or lose it!! phraseology. Don't know of any state or body that has gone out under this concept alone and done things. The idea was that under the compact, a state doesn't have to go out and build a lot of storage projects in order to protect their entitlement. Need to clarify the distinction of "use it or lose it" in rela- tion to the Compact and in relation to state water rights. There will always be concerns of transfers. Utah can do what it wants with its water, but their actions affects the whole upper basin. Any interstate transfer proposals should be shared openly. BUREAU OF RECLAMATION MEETING DENVER, CO Issue of integrating non-federal and federal facility opera- tions, e.g., Metropolitan Water District wants to take northern California water and bank their Colorado River water in an aquifer, etc. Use of nonfederal facilities for water banking for more efficient use of water. Can say opportunities or impact JIM BROOKS NEW MEXICO FISHERY RESOURCES OFF'ICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM Conservation and efficient use is a very important. Lets look beyond the ends of our noses. BUREAU OF RECLAMATION MEETING BOULDER CITY, NV Marketing, related to disposition of conserved water, who gets it, how itls defined, etc. "Use it or lose it!1 is accurate mentality. Environmental impacts of water conservation efforts, e.g., endangered species in Imperial Irrigation District drains, or ditch lining and its effects on wetlands. This also relates to water quality, as conservation decreases drainage, water quality decreases. Laws and regulations hamper efforts to get conservation on ground; prior appropriation doctrine. Energy Policy Act of 1992 deals with conservation of water for improving hydroelectric development. Water conservation for enhancement of hydro development. Funding mechanisms for water conservation. Opponunities for economic incentives for water conservation. Drought planning related to economics of district.