WSP08531

• File Number: 8282.600.10
• Description: Colorado River Operating Annual Reports
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/1/1972
• Author: USDOI/BOR
• Title: Operation of the Colorado River Basin 1972 Projected Operations 1973
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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Pursuan t to the Colorado River Basin Project
Act (P.L. 90-537) of 1968, I am pleased to
present to the Congress and to the Governors of
the Colorado River Basin States, the second
Annual Report on the Operation of the
Colorado River.
This report describes the actual opera tion of
the reservoirs in the Colorado River drainage
area constructed under the authority of the
Colorado River Storage Project Act, the Boulder
Canyon Project Act, and the Boulder Canyon
Project Adjustment Act during water year 1972
and the projected operation of these reservoirs
during water year 1973 under the Criteria for
Coordinated Long-Range Operation of Colorado
River Reservoirs published in the Federal
RegisterJune 10, 1970.

ROGERSC. B. MORTON
Secretary, United States
Department of the Interior

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The operation of the Colorado River during
the past year and the projected operation for the
current year reflect domestic use, irrigation,
hydroelectric power generation, water quality
control, fish and wildlife propagation, recrea-
tion, flood con trol, and Colorado River
Compact require men ts.
Storage and release of water from the Upper
Basin reservoirs recognize all applicable laws and
relevant factors governing the Colorado River,
including the impoundment of water in the
Upper Basin req uired by Section 602(a) of
Public Law 90-537. The operation of the Lower
Basin reservoirs reflects Mexican Treaty obliga-
tions and Lower Basin contractual commit-
ments.

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