Excerpt from Agreement Between the United States of America and the State of California for Coordinated Operation of the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project Articles 1 2development, conservation, control, and utilization of water resources in California. The State has under construction and is operating initial facilities of the State Water Resources Development System, herein called the State Water Project, for the development, conservation, control, and utilization of water resources in California. The United States and the State entered into an agree ment on May 16, 1960, Article 16 of which recognizes the need for criteria for the coordinated Operation of the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project. Certain basic assumptions of that agreement require modification in light of subsequent developments and changes in the two projects. The United States and the State had prepared a May 13, 1971, Draft Agreement which would have supplemented the Agreement of May 16, 1960. The United States and the State have in the past been operating under annual letter agreements implementing the May 13, 1971, Draft Agreement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.