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Show 2. That concurrently with any congressional authorization of the Lower Colorado River Basin Project, or any of its component parts, there also will be authorized a project or projects to import water into the Colorado River Basin from sources outside the natural drainage area of the Colorado River system, in such quantities as will: a. Relieve the states of the Colorado River Basin from any obligation to deliver water to the Republic of Mexico pursuant to the terms of the Mexican Water Treaty of 1944. b. Supply the Lower Basin States with that amount of water required for the consumptive use of seven and one-half million acre-feet per year which is not supplied in accordance with Article III (a) of the Colorado River Compact. c. Supply the Upper Basin states, by exchange or otherwise, with that amount of water required for the consumptive use of seven and one-half million acre-feet per year which is not supplied in accordance with Article III (a) of the Colorado River Compact. 3. That the primary purpose of the Colorado Storage Project is to implement beneficial consumptive use of water in the Upper Basin and that Glen Canyon Reservoir will not be drawn below its rated head, except as it may be necessary to comply with Article III (d) of the Colorado River Compact and except as may be approved by the Upper Colorado River Commission. 4. That the diversion of funds from the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund to the Colorado River Dam Fund as payment for the so-called Hoover Dam deficiencies, pursuant to the Glen Canyon filling criteria, be terminated forthwith. 5. That all expenditures made from the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund to meet deficiencies in generation at Hoover Dam, pursuant to the Glen Canyon filling criteria, be reimbursed to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund in full, such reimbursement to include, but not be limited to, the cost of deficiency energy purchased, the cost of energy impairment and the cost of capacity impairment. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that in order to carry out and implement the intent of this resolution the staff of the Upper Colorado River Commission is authorized and instructed to: a. Maintain close and continuous liaison with the Governors of the States of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyo- 51 |