Document Concerning Resolution

Document: Metropolitian Water District of Souther California resolution, 1965? (photocopy), page 1WHEREAS, the Colorado River Board of California, after careful study and consultation with interested groups, has adopted the following Resolution: "The Colorado River Board recommends that if the Central Arizona Project is to be authorized, that authorization should be contained in a Pacific Southwest Plan, as one of the following three interrelated provisions: "1. Authorization for the construction, operation and maintenance of works to import not less than 2.5 million acre feet annually into the main stream of the Colorado River below Lee Ferry, as the first stage of a regional importation plan adequate to protect existing economies and provide water for filling Upper Basin reservoirs and refilling Lake Mead, as well as providing water for the Central Arizona Project. The congressional authorization may be made conditional, as has been done in several other statutes, on the promulgation by the President or Secretary of the Interior of findings of feasibility. A portion of the cost, fairly related to the relief of shortages occasioned by the Mexican Treaty burden, should be non-reimbursable. "To the extent that importation of water into the Colorado River System is necessary in order to make sufficient water available for release, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to Article II (B) (1) of the decree of the United States Supreme Court in Arizona v. California, et al., to satisfy annual consumptive use of 2,800,000 acre-feet in Arizona, 4,400,000 acre-feet in California and 300,000 acre-feet in Nevada, respectively, the Secretary shall make such imported water available to the holders of contracts with the United States for the storage and delivery of main stream water in those states at the same cost, and on the same terms, as would be applicable if main stream water were available for release in the quantities required to supply such consumptive use. "2. Authorization for construction of the Central Arizona Project, with a diversion capacity of 1.2 million acre feet as planned, subject to the following condition. "3. The Secretary of the Interior shall administer Article II (B) (3) of the Supreme Court's decree (which relates to the insufficiency of water to supply 7.5 million acre feet in consumptive use), as follows: diversions for the Central Arizona Project shall be limited to the extent necessary to assure the availability of water to satisfy 4.4 million acre feet of consumptive use in California, plus the satisfaction of present perfected rights in Arizona and Nevada and the satisfaction of the government's contracts with water users in those two states made before passage of the Act, until the President proclaims that works have been completed and are in operation, which are (i) capable of continuously delivering water in aggregate annual quantities of not lessEpson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 2,300,624 byte