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", IrA.a far as t.l:H.': )>~\~\V 1:vh'DclCo r}r~)J~;{~ts ar.e COlM,::erued ~ the.., data in the l"':epo.d; is too :rneager to bf.:~ u,s"ed as a basis for planning a program OJr fo,' determining the potential.ities of the wat.er supply; that almost no n.oneys from the Boulder Car'yon Adjustment Act funds have been 9pent {or investigations in New Mexico; That much additional investigation and study are necessary before fir.al plans for development of New Mexico lands can be made. and that New Mexico is at a disadvantage until adequate investigations are made. Bureau estimates of stream flow depletion fur New Mexico projects are low and estimates of return flow are high. The Bureau estimates that New Mexico's increase of water consumption for the San .Juan projects listed would be 450,000 acre feet a year p New Mexico says that actual increase of consumption probably would be nearer 1,000,000 acre feet a year. .. MR. MATTHEW: That is rather an interesting comment from New Mexico in vidw of preliminary reports that in the Lower Basins, the needs of New Mexico and Utah would be satisfied by an estimated amount of 135,000 acre feet in terms of main stream depletion. New Mexico says that the Hammolld and Pine River Extension Projects should be started in the neal" future and the La Plata Project should be constructed as soon as possible. That's a brief summary of the New Mexico comment~), as nearly as we could brief theln for your information,. I take it that New Mexico feels that they should have a large share in the water, both in the Upper Basin and the Lower Basin, and that the report seems to be incomplete as far as potentialiti.es in New Mexico are cOIICerned. Does anybody here have any remarks or discussion on the New Mexico comments? CHAIRMAN. I would like to know what amount of transportation of water takes place from Colorado under the compact into New Mexico, using water of the Colorado River Basin in the and Rio Grande. I know they have signed a compact and I have heard abolt their 5% water they are entitled to--has already been taken tlllt up in Colorado, and thrown over into the Rio Grande system. Most of the land that they wish to irrigate is in the Rio Grande basin. They have a large project there on the Navajo Indian Reservation. MlIC. MATTHEW ~ Mr. Moritz is here. Perhaps we should ask him to eKpound this, but therels a tabulation in the report on the division here of eKports from the San Juan Division. Mr. Moritz, is that the only present eKportation, in answer'to Mr. Jenkins' question from Colorado over into New Mexico? MR. MORITZ~ All I know is what.is in that report. Thatls out of my territory, the Upper Basin. -36- ~~. :9