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I therefore recommend that the Board amend its proposed amendment by insertion of the following paragraph (a) and that the remainder of your amendment be redesignated (b), (c) and (d). "(a) The provisions of this section shall be operative only so long as the Congress does not provide for the construction, operation and maintenance of a regional plan, substantially as outlined in the comments of the State of California on the Pacific Southwest Water Plan submitted by the State to the Secretary of the Interior in December 1963, and meeting the objectives set forth therein including, but not limited to, the following. Said regional plan shall provide water sufficient to make up any deficiencies of mainstream Colorado River water available to satisfy consumptive uses in Arizona, California, and Nevada in the annual amounts of 2.8, 4.4 and 0.3 million acre feet respectively, at the costs to users that would have prevailed if such mainstream waters were available for said uses in said annual amounts. Said regional plan shall also provide that the costs of water to users in the areas of origin and the states from which water is exported for the purposes of the regional plan shall be met at costs to said users no greater than those that would have prevailed if the exports from said areas of origin and states for the purposes of the regional plan had not been made. " This amendment represents the substance of my thinking. It would, of course, be subject to alteration or elimination, if a regional plan acceptable to California is enacted into law. Sincerely, (Signed) Edmund G. Brown Governor cc: Hon. Hugo Fisher Hon. William Warne Irvine H. Sprague COPYEpson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 14,061,568 byte