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<br />within the time constraints set forth in the Conceptual Approach in <br />IV below. <br /> <br />The East Mesa and other recharge and recovery opportunities, <br />vegetation management, snowpack enhancement and other water <br />augmentation programs such as seawater desalinization and <br />infrastructure improvements within each of the districts are being <br />pursued and will yield yet to be determined additional quantities <br />of water. In addition, the agencies that are parties to <br />California's Seven Party Agreement are working together in pursuit <br />of programs that will better allow each of the agencies' future <br />water needs to be met from within California's basic apportionment <br />from the Colorado River. From a basinwide perspective, California <br />has been and continues to be supportive of the Colorado River <br />Enhanced Snowpack Test (CREST), vegetation management programs in <br />the Colorado River Basin and other programs that enhance the <br />certainty of a Colorado River water supply for all of the Basin's <br />water users. <br /> <br />I. Interstate Water Transfers <br /> <br />Over the years, interest has been expressed in allowing <br />interstate transfers (changes in places of use) of water by persons <br />claiming to own water rights and desiring to sell those rights to <br />entities who need water in other states. In the past, there has <br />been opposition to such proposals by each of the seven Colorado <br />River Basin states based on their analysis that this would require <br />substantial modifications in the "Law of the River" and that such <br />modification to the "Law of the River" would not be in the best <br />interest of any of the states. As a result, none of the proposals <br />have moved past the conceptual stage. With increasing interest and <br />pressures to allow interstate transfers of water, positions taken <br />in the past by the seven Colorado River Basin states (essentially <br />avoidance of the issue) are not an acceptable approach. It is, <br />therefore, appropriate to address interstate transfers of water <br />among the Basin states through a forum created by the seven <br />Colorado River Basin states, and based on sound public policy. The <br />mechanism to be used for addressing interstate transfers of water <br />is an interstate water bank created and operated by the seven <br />Colorado River Basin states. <br /> <br />J. Intrastate Water Transfers <br /> <br />Intrastate water transfers (changes in places and types of <br />use) and policies established for such transfers are the sole <br />responsibility of each of the individual Colorado River Basin <br />states and when applicable, the individual state and the Bureau of <br />Reclamation acting for the Secretary of the Interior in contractual <br />relationships with a state or a Colorado River water diverter. <br />While such transactions and policies are of interest to the other <br />Basin states, the manner in which each state approaches intrastate <br />water transfers is not critical to operation of the interstate <br /> <br />10 <br />