The Arizona Water Banking Authority Commission met in conjunction with a public meeting of the Arizona Department of Water Resources on January 13, 2000.
Regulations are in effect.
Those regulations adequately protect Arizona s rights to Colorado river water as those rights are defined by the decree. Do the rules adequately recognize the principle of the 1964 decree allocated water to the individual states of the lower basin. Does the interbanking arrangements, under the rule, draw any harmful distinction between AWBA s intrastate operation and its prospective interstate operations. Mr. Pearce stated that there were other concerns regarding the rule that were addressed, at least in part, in the final rule. Definition of state authorized entity and requirement that agreements can only be made between state authorized entities.