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GAO-15-468R 1 (2015-06-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaiyv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 June 4, 2015 The Honorable Mike Simpson Chairman Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Bureau of Reclamation: Financial Information for Three California Water Programs Dear Mr. Chairman: The state of California is an important contributor to U.S. agricultural production. In 2012, for instance, California was the top agriculture-producing state in the nation, and the state's central valley was home to more than half of the top 10 counties in the nation in terms of agricultural sales.1 The roughly 500-mile long Central Valley Project (CVP), one of the nation's largest water projects, provides water to approximately one-third of the agricultural land in the state through a complex series of dams, reservoirs, and canals (see fig. 1). The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) assumed construction and operation of the CVP in the 1930s, which was originally designed to provide irrigation and municipal water, improve navigation and flood control, and generate power.2 In 1992, federal law required Reclamation to operate the CVP for additional purposes, including protecting and restoring fish and wildlife habitat and mitigating the ecological effects of the construction and operation of the CVP. Reclamation must balance these competing interests for water in managing the CVP, which is particularly important as California enters its fourth consecutive year of an extreme drought, with restrictions on water use in place across the state for the first time in the state's history. 1This was the most recent information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 2012 Census of Agriculture, which is published every 5 years. 2Generally, Reclamation provides water to individual users to satisfy written water contracts between the user and the federal government, subject to certain terms and conditions. GAO-1 5-468R California Reclamation Water Program Funding Page 1

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