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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I THE SECRETARY OF" THE INTERIOR WASHINGTON JAN 1 4 2002 Honorable Kenny Guinn Governor of Nevada Carson City, >Jevada 89701 Dear Governor Guinn: The Bureau of Reclamation. after consultation on September 26. 200 I, with representatives of the Colorado River Basin States, the Upper Colorado River Commission, appropriate Federal agencies. Indian tribes, and others interested in Colorado River operations. established the Annua/ Operating Plan. (copy enclosed) for the Colorado River reservoirs for 2002. The plan of operation reflects use of the reservoirs for all purposes consistent with the "Criteria for Coordinated Long.Range Operation ofrhe Colorado River Reservoirs Pursuant to the Colorado River Basin Project Act of September 30,1968" (Operating Criteria). Pursuant to required Secretarial determinations. storage equalization and the avoidance of spills will control the annual releases from Glen Canyon Dam in accordance with Article lI(3) of the Operating Criteria unless the minimum objective release criterion in Article Il(2) is controlling. lfthe equalization criterion is controlling, Glen Canyon Dam \vill be operated to rdease suflicient waler during water year 2002 to equalize, as nearly as practicable, the active reservoir contents of Lake Powell and Lake ~lead on September 30, 2002. Taking into accounl (l) the existing water supply conditions in the basin. (2) the most probable near-term water supply conditions in the basin, and (3) that the beneficial consumptive use requirements of Colorado River mainstream users in the Lower Division States are expected to be more than 7.5 million acre. feet (MAF) or 9.250 million cubic meters (~ICM), and specifically (-t) the Interim Surplus Guidelines. the Full Domestic Surplus condition is the criterion governing the operation of Lake ;...1ead for calendar year 2002 in accordance with Article 1II(3)(b) of the Operuting Criteria and Article II(B)(2) of the Decree and Section 2(B)(2) of the Interim Surplus Guidelines. The estimated amount of surplus water expected to be pumped or released from Lake ~lead during calendar year 2002 is not expected to exceed O.6-.t.O ~lAF (789.-.t.-.t. MCM). The actual amount of surplus could be less than this amount (in the likely event of the use of any available unused apportionment) and could also. based on actual Direct Delivery Domestic Use. exceed this projected amount.