WSP08236

• File Number: 8282.500
• Description: Colorado River Operations
• State: CA
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 3/30/1970
• Author: Metro. Water Dist. o
• Title: Statement of Metro Water District of Southern California Related to Glen Canyon Filling Criteria
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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"That the diversion of money from the Upper
Colorado River Basin fund to the Colorado River
dam fund as payment for the so-called Hoover Dam
deficiencies, pursuant to the Glen Canyon filling
criteria, be terminated forthwith; and that all
expenditures made from the Upper Colorado River
Basin fund to meet deficiencies in generation at
Hoover Dam, pursuant to the Glen Canyon filling
criteria, be reimbursed to the Upper Colorado
River Basin fund in full."

A similar statement was included in a resolution by the

Colorado Water Conservation Board, adopted on August 11, 1965,

and appended to Governor Love's prepared statement.i!J

C. Terms of the Seven-State Aqreement

The terms of the Seven-State Agreement, negotiated

during SePtember 1965 and proposed to be implemented by Section 502

of H.R. 4671 and subsequently implemented by Section 502 of P.L. 90-

537, were as follows:

The Upper Division would support legislation providing

for the continuance of the Filling Criteria and the Hoover power

deficiency allowances purs uant to Principle 5 thereof, during the

filling period of the storage units of the Colorado River Storage

Project; in exchanqe for

The Lower Division supporting legislation directing the

reimbursement of the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund for the money

expended heretofore or hereafter from that fund to meet deficiencies

in generation at Hoover Dam during the above-mentioned filling

i!J See Footnote 6, page 345.

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