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Implementation of the Plan It is contemplated that the Pacific Southwest Water Plan could be implemented readily through: (1) Establishment of a development fund; (2) immediate authorization and construction of those features of the Initial Plan for which investigations have established engineering and financial feasibility; (3) authorization of the remaining features of the Initial Plan upon completion of feasibility studies and their construction as needed; (4) establishment of procedures to accomplish coordinated, comprehensive, regional, long-range planning including establishment of a regional advisory commission; (5) close and effective participation and cooperation by all interests involved--Federal, State, and local; and (6) studies and research as required to provide technical data and information of a general nature needed to support future water resource development programs. Specific items of policy or action that will be involved in implementation of the Pacific Southwest Water Plan are as follows: 1. Development Fund It is proposed that a Pacific Southwest Development Fund be established similar to the Basin Fund created by the Colorado River Storage Project Act (70 Stat. 105). The Development Fund would be created in the Treasury of the United States, and amounts credited thereto would remain available until expended for the purposes authorized by the Congress. There would be credited to the Development Fund all appropriations made for the purposes of carrying out the construction of the units authorized by the Congress, except recreation, fish and wildlife, and Indian developments which are part of the comprehensive plan but separate from other units for storage, irrigation, hydroelectric power, and municipal and industrial water. Appropriations for such excepted developments would be made as an integral part of appropriations for implementing the plan as a whole, but they would be accounted for separately from the Development Fund. Also credited to the Development Fund would be all revenues from sales of water and power collected in connection with the units constructed with monies appropriated to the Development Fund and, after repayment, all revenues from the Boulder Canyon and Parker-Davis projects surplus to the operation, maintenance, and replacement requirements of the two projects and any payments from Boulder Canyon Project revenues needed to reimburse the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund for any expenditures made from that fund as provided in the Glen Canyon filling criteria to meet deficiencies in generation at Hoover Dam during the filling period of the Colorado River Storage Project reservoirs. 28Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 13,993,984 byte