Proposed Pricing of Irrigation Water From California's Central Valley New Melones Reservoir

In response to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the proposed water service contracts of the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation with the New Melones Reservoir irrigators, focusing on: how the Bureau contracts for the sale of project water, how water rates for Central Valley Project (CVP) irrigators are calculated, and the impact on project repayment of integrating New Melones irrigation construction costs into the CVP cost base.