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Recommendation 12: Authorization should include the proposed ground water recovery and water salvage (phreatophyte control) programs contingent, however, upon the submission of detailed plans for each component part or subunit to the affected states for review and approval. Comment: Authorization of ground-water recovery and water salvage programs is recommended in the report. Details on these programs are contained in the attachment to this report, entitled "Lower Colorado River--Supplemental Information on Water Salvage." The ground-water recovery and phreatophyte control programs in Arizona and California will be coordinated with the officials of the State wherein such programs are being undertaken. Recommendation 13: The Plan should deal with the water quality, fish and wildlife, and sea-water intrusion problems of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and should provide for (a) establishment of a minimum outflow from the Delta for sea-water repulsion, in accordance with findings of joint committees now at work in the Delta; (b) additional outflow found necessary to meet the needs of fish, wildlife, recreation, and public health by the United States Public Health and Fish and Wildlife Services; (c) concurrent construction of the Delta facilities to be jointly recommended by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and the State; and (d) early completion of studies of the Kellogg Project so that, contingent upon favorable findings and compatibility with the physical works recommended in (c) above, said project may be authorized and constructed as a feature of the Central Valley Project concurrently with implementation of the Plan. Comment: Proposals for handling these problems of the Delta are discussed in the report of the Commissioner of Reclamation in connection with the plans for the East Side Division enlargement. Recommendation 14: Federal participation in enlargement of the California Aqueduct must be restricted to financing, subject to appropriate repayment arrangements, so that the State would continue to be able to meet its responsibilities to its own water supply con=tractors for the design, construction, operation, and extension of the California Water Facilities. The State must retain the exclusive responsibility for marketing all waters transported through the aqueduct for sale in Southern California, and must not be required to compete with the United States in the State's service area. Likewise, the water produced from any salt-water conversion plant for use in that area must be marketed by the State through its operation of the State Water Project. Comment: As discussed in the report of the Commissioner of Reclamation, Recommendation 14 has been adopted insofar as it relates to the marketing of water through the enlarged California Aqueduct. 4Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 13,950,976 byte