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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (80751)	12/5/2000 7:02:23 PM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Bearcatbob, California's restrictive zoning and facility siting regulations are cumulatively caused by City, County, and State levels of government and sometimes overly zealous environmental citizen's groups, and also by flat out by bad air quality. For e.g. , an alternative major transmission line has been planned into the San Diego area I believe for 15 years- However it has been blocked by local environmental group action. Calofornia dodged resolution of that issue by importing power from Arizona and the NW from the BPA. Well due to growth north and east of California and local consumption of power, those traditional power import sources are becoming less reliable. In addition for years California has traditonally taken too much water from the Colorado for years -around 5.2 mm acre feet when the US Supreme Court decree in Arizona v. California limited the State of California to 4.4 mm acre feet annually. Due to pressure from AZ, NV, Utah, and CO, te Clinton Administaiton finally "limited" California to its original Colorado River water allocation of 4.4 mm acre feet. Its called the Dep't of Interior "Interim Surplus Plan" and California's "4.4 Plan", but it allows California to overdraw its allocation for 15 more years while the State takes various steps to cut its reliance upon the Colorado River (Those 54 electoral votes talk, heh-heh). Anyway California is banging up against limitations in its water and power sectors-And needs to take steps to assure these basic commodities moving forward if it wants to remain the economically dominate State in the West....