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<br />,- C' .- ..... <br />k~'i <br /> <br />RAYMOND R. RUMMONDS <br />CHAIRIIAN AND COLOIllADO <br />AI...... COM MI.. ION lEft <br />COACH.LLA VAI..L.Y COUNTY <br />WAT5ftDI.T..ICT <br /> <br />VIRGIL L. JONES <br /> <br />.AN DII;;GO WATER AUTHORITY <br /> <br />eo <br />.-' <br /> <br />,~~ '. <br /> <br />PALO VERDE ...RlgATIO... DI.TIIlICT <br /> <br />EDGAR L. KANOUSE <br /> <br />DE"AIITM.li:NT 0" WATE"" AND <br />POWER. CITY Or' LO. Allla.L.. <br /> <br />RAYMOND E. BADGER <br /> <br />CARL C. BEViNS <br /> <br />IM".li:RIAL IRRllioATION DI.TRICT <br /> <br />JOSEPH JEN6EN <br />THE MIETftO"OLITAN WATER DI.TRICT <br />0' .OUTHI:RN CALI'ORNIA <br /> <br />MYRON B. HOLBURT <br /> <br />STATE OF CALIFORNIA <br /> <br />CHIEF ENGINI:E" <br /> <br />HAROLD F. PELLEGRIN <br /> <br />EXECUTIYE SI:CRITllfty <br /> <br />Colorado ~iver Board of California <br /> <br />909 SOUTH BROADWAY <br />LOS ANGELES 90015 <br /> <br />May 1, 1969 <br /> <br />DEAR GOVERNOR REAGAN: <br /> <br />California is a great state and California has a great stake in the Colorado River. The river <br />provides 5,000,000 acre-feet a year to Southern California's cities and farms and supports major <br />hydroelectric and recreational developments. Since 1937, the Colorado River Board has been <br />charged by statute with the responsibility of protecting the state's rights and interests in the <br />river. This report summarizes the activities of the Board for the calendar year 1968. <br />The Board together with the Department of \Vater Resources and the Attorney General has <br />been working for several years wirh representatives from other states of the Colorado River Basin <br />and with members of Congress toward achieving solutions to the Basin's problems on a regional <br />basis, and protecting and enhancing California's existing rights to Colorado River water. During <br />1968, these efforts culminated in the passage of the Colorado River Basin Project Act of 1968 <br />(P. L. 90-537) signed into law on September 30, 1968. This bill provides a framework to solve <br />many of the problems of the Basin; however, a great deal of work must be accomplished in the <br />future in order to fully achieve the objectives of the bill. Many interests were involved and the <br />bill as finally passed was a compromise, with the major deficiency being that it prohibits the <br />study of importation of water from the Columbia River Basin to the Colorado River Basin for <br />a 10-year period. <br /> <br />The major features of P.L. 90-53 7 are as follows: <br /> <br />I. Authorization of the Central Arizona Project. <br />2. Authorization of several Upper Colorado River Basin Projects. <br />3. Existing California, Arizona, and Nevada water contractors receive a priority of deliveries <br />over the Central Arizona Project, with California's priority limited to 4.4 million acre-feet <br />per year. <br />4. The United States assumes the responsibility of meeting the Mexican Treaty water deliveries <br />when the river is augmented. <br />5. The Secretary of the Interior is to develop a plan to meet the water needs of the West, with <br />the aforementioned prohibition against studying transbasin exports from states outside the <br />Colorado River Basin for 10 years. <br />6. A basin fund is established to help repay future augmentation costs. <br />7. Priorities are established for the operation of the major Colorado River reservoirs. <br /> <br />3 <br />