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 PUBLIC LAW 102-575—OCT. 30, 1992 106 STAT. 4619 (ii) the reduced cost of wastewater treatment, if any; (iii) net additional hydroelectric power generation, if any, valued at avoided cost; (iv) net savings in operation, maintenance, and replacement costs; and (v) net savings in on-farm costs. (3) IMPLEMENTATION.—The District, and each petitioner of project water, as appropriate, shall implement and maintain, consistent with State law, conservation measures placed in the active inventory to the maximum practical extent necessary to achieve 50 percent of the water conservation goal within seven years after submission of the initial plan and 100 percent of the water conservation goal within fifteen years after submission of the initial plan. Priority shall be given to implementetion of the most cost-effective measures that are— (A) found to reduce consimiptive use of water without significant adverse impact to the financial integrity of the District or the petitioner of project water; (B) environmentelly accepteble and for which the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et se(](.) has been satisfied; and (C) found to be in the public mterest. (4) USE OF SAVED WATER. —All water saved by any conservation measure implemented by the District or a petitioner of project water under subsection (b)(3) may be retained by the District or the petitioner of project water which saved such water for its own use or disposition. The specific amounts of water saved by any conservation measure implemented under subsection (b)(3) shall be based upon the determination of yield under paragraph (b)(l)(B)(iii), and as may be confirmed or modified by assessment pursuant to paragraph (b)(l)(E^)- Each petitioner of project water may make available to the District water in an amount equivalent to the water saved, which the District may make available to the Secretary for instream flows in addition to the stream flow requirements established by section 303. Such instream flows shall be released from project facilities, subject to space available in project conveyance systems, to at least one watercourse in the Bonneville and Uinta River Basins, respectively, to be designated by the United Stotes Fish and Wildlife Service as recommended by the Interagency Biological Assessment Team. Such flows shall be protected against appropriation in the same manner as the minimimi streamflow requirements established by section 303. The Secretary shall reduce the annual contractual repayment obligation of the District equal to the project rate for delivered water, including operation and maintenance expenses, for water saved for instream flows pursuant to this subsection. The District shall credit or rebate to each petitioner of project water its proportionate share of the District's repa3ment savings for reductions in deliveries of project water as a result of this subsection. (5) STATUS REPORT ON THE PLANNING PROCESS. —Prior to January 1, 1994, the District shall estoblish a continuous process for the identification, evaluation, and implementetion of water conservation measures to achieve the purposes of this section, and submit a report thereon to the Secretary. The

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