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<br />v) requirements for domestic and municipal water supplies, flood control, the
<br />(j) preservation of recreational and fish and wildlife values and the production
<br />of hydroelectric pC1'rer. Neither further retire~ent of presently irrigated
<br />land to meet necessary and pressing municipal requirements for water nor
<br />project develo!'ffient designed to serve a single purpose would be consonant with
<br />the most desi,~ole economic advancement of Colorado, or with the highest utili-
<br />zation of its limited water supplies.
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<br />2. Colorado concurs in the findings of the Project Report that the pro-
<br />ject described therein is engineeringly feasible, economically justified, and
<br />financially feasible, and that the proposed plan for the payment of reimbursable
<br />capital costs is in accordance with the Federal reclamation law.
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<br />3. The allocation of oapital costs as between the various project features,
<br />including a nonreimbursable allocation to flood control and fish and wildlife
<br />preservation, is considered reasonable.
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<br />4. It is recognized that the allocation to the various project purposes
<br />of annual operation, maj.nte~ance and replacement costs has been made to
<br />correspond to the allocation of capital costs. Colorado recommends that an
<br />authorization of the project shall not preclude a readjustment of operation,
<br />maintenance and replacement charges as betvreen municipal and domestic users
<br />and power and irrigatio'J ~3ers which might more acc~rately reflect the actual
<br />use of water by said UR8.'S.
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<br />5. It is also recG"'~'J~::',ed that the authorize':':;')!! of the project include
<br />the Valley Pipe Line as !',,"-'erred to in said relJort for t"e use and benefit of
<br />the various Valley t01ms.
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<br />6. Colorado calls attention to the fact that the project, its operation,
<br />maintenance and the use of Colorado River water thereunder, must be subject to
<br />the provisions of the Colorado River Compact of November 24, 1922 (House Docu-
<br />ment 605, 67th Congress, Fourth Session), the Upper Colorado River Basin Com-
<br />pact of October 11, 1948 (Public Law 37, 81st Congress, First Session), and
<br />the Boulder Canyon Project Act of December 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 1057-1061~).
<br />Fu=ther reference to this matter appears in these comments in connection \vith
<br />thd subject of "Operating Principles." The features of the project and their
<br />cperation for the storage and re-!"egulation of the native waters of the A."]--a.nsas
<br />River are subject to the p>:,ovisions of the Arkansas River Compact of D"lce,n:'e:..' 14,
<br />19106 (?uhlic Law 82, 81st Congress, First Session) between Colorado awl K'm~asr
<br />On ,Iu'.:, :~4, 1951, th", t.~-:':,'r.1sas fii"'2~' Compact Administration, an agency ere< t.~u
<br />by t.':!" Gompa~t for its ,,'"T.:inistrat.:;,on, after a review of the project r"'!17~-;' and
<br />consid,ri\tion of the eif~ct of the operation of the proposed project Cll the
<br />admini,tration of the pr0visions of the Compact, adopted the following re6r.lution:
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<br />'"IIHEREAS there 112S been sub,-:titted to the states of Colorado an':!
<br />Kansas by the Secr"t.~ ry of t'Jr! ~c~terior, in accr.-I'Q,lnce \vith provi f:,'J'1S
<br />of Sect!.on 1 of tc.'" J '/44 FlOGrl Contr()l Act, a repo;:'t of the Burea'l or
<br />Reclamation on the pro;:>osed Initial Development, GW-.nioo;1-Arkansa3 Project,
<br />Roaring Fork Diversion, Colorado (Project Planning Report No. 7-8a.49-1)
<br />and such States are required to transmit to the Secretary of the Interior
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