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Show to the extent permitted by law and within the limits of available funds, including funds transferred for that purpose pursuant to section 203 (a) (7) of this Act, such information as may be necessary for carrying out its functions and as may be available to or procurable by such department or agency, and (2) to detail to temporary duty with this Commission on a reimbursable basis such personnel within his administrative jurisdiction as it may need or believe to be useful for carrying out its functions, each such detail to be without loss of seniority, pay, or other employee status. (c) Financial and administrative services (including those related to budgeting, accounting, financial reporting, personnel, and procurement) shall be provided the Commission by the General Services Administration, for which payment shall be made in advance, or by reimbursement from funds of the Commission in such amounts as may be agreed upon by the Chairman of the Commission and the Administrator of General Services: Provided, That the regulations of the General Services Administration for the collection of indebtedness of personnel resulting from erroneous payments (5 U.S.C. 46e) shall apply to the collection of erroneous payments made to or on behalf of a Commission employee, and regulations of said Administrator for the administrative control of funds (31 U.S.C. 665g) shall apply to appropriations of the Commision: And provided further, That the Commission shall not be required to prescribe such regulations. SEC. 206. (a) The Council in consultation with the Commission, acting in accordance with the procedure prescribed in section 103 of the Water Resources Planning Act, shall within one hundred twenty days following the effective date of this Act establish principles, standards, and procedures for the program of investigations and submittal of plans and reports relating to the Southwest authorized by this section and section 208. The Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary"), under the direction of the Commission, in conformity with the principles, standards, and procedures so established, and in accordance with the authority granted in Section 205, is authorized and directed to - (1) prepare estimates of the long-range water supply available for consumptive use in the Southwest and in each of its major constituent parts, of current water requirements therein, and of the rate of growth of water requirements therein, to at least the year 2030. (2) invesigate sources and means of supplying water to meet the current and anticipated water requirements of the Southwest and of each of its major constituent parts, including reductions in losses, importations from sources outside the natural drainage basins of the Southwest, desalination, weather modification, and other means; (3) investigate projects within the lower basin of the Colorado River, including projects on tributaries of the Colorado River where undeveloped water supplies are available or can be made available by replacement or exchange; (4) undertake investigations, in cooperation with other concerned agencies, of the feasibility of proposed development plans in maintaining an adequate water quality throughout the Southwest; (5) investigate means of providing for prudent water conservation practices to permit maximum beneficial utilization of available water supplies in the Southwest; (6) investigate and prepare estimates of the long-range water supply in States and areas from which water may be imported into the Southwest, together with estimates of the probable ultimate requirements for water within those States and areas of origin, for all purposes, including, but not limited to, consumptive use, navigation, river regulation, power, enhancement of fishery resources, pollution control, and disposal of wastes to the ocean, and estimates of the quantities of water, if any, that will be available in excess of such requirements in the States and areas of origin for exportation to the Southwest; and (7) investigate current and anticipated water requirements of areas outside the natural drainage areas of the Southwest which feasibly can be served from importation facilities en route to the Southwest. (b) The Secretary is authorized and directed to prepare reconnaissance reports of a staged plan or plans for projects adequate, in his judgment, to 49 |
