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Show (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 Commission: 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 and 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 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 Colorado River Basin, of current water requirements therein, and of the rate of growth of water requirements therein to at least the year 2030; (2) investigate sources and means of supplying water to meet the current and anticipated water requirements of the Colorado River Basin, including reductions in losses, importations from sources outside the natural drainage basin of the Colorado River system, 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 Colorado River Basin; (5) investigate means of providing for prudent water conservation practices to permit maximum beneficial utilization of available water supplies in the Colorado River Basin; (6) investigate and prepare estimates of the long-range water supply in States and areas from which water may be imported into the Colorado River system, 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 Colorado River system; and (7) investigate current and anticipated water requirements of areas outside the natural drainage areas of the Colorado River system which feasibly can be served from importation facilities en route to the Colorado River system. (b) The Secretary is authorized and directed to prepare reconnaissance reports of a staged plan or plans for projects adequate, in its judgment, to meet the requirements reported under subsection (a) of this section, in conformity with section 207. (c) The plan for the first stage of works to meet the future requirements of the areas of deficiency and surplus as determined from studies performed pursuant to this section shall include, but not be limited to, import works necessary to provide two million five hundred thousand acre-feet annually for use from the main stream of the Colorado River below Lee Ferry, including satis- 55 |