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<br />001' n <br /> <br />-2- <br /> <br />!l1Id Power Projects" of the Heo.rinr,s. pursunnt to Semite Resolution 102, <br />before the Sub-Committee on Roads and Reclnmntion of the Sennte Com- <br />mittee on Postwar Uconomie Poliey nnd Planning. <br /> <br />LI' The following comMents nnd su~gestions, relative to tho Hcport <br />On the Colorado River Bnsin, constitute n Sto.tement by and in behnlr of <br />the :;tde of Colorndo, nnd are mndo by the Colorado \-IntoI' Consorvation <br />Board as nuthorhed by Chapter 265. Session laws of 19;7. Inasmuoh as <br />pagos 11 to l5 of the Report, being the seotion entitled. "SUI1lI\ary and <br />ReeOl111lendntions." ru-e hlnnk in the oopies submitted to Coloro.do, but are <br />to be filled in qy the TIuroau of Reolamation in the rovised final drnft <br />trnnsmitted to Congress, this Stntomont shall be oOnDidered prelimJ,no.ry <br />and incomplete. !l1Id subjoot to sueh nmondmont fiS ColoradO mo.y dOOm noc os. <br />so.ry or o.dvisable if nnd whon tho l'ooommendntions of the Roport ars r:\o.de <br />lmo\'6l to the State. The intontion 01.' the Stnter.lOnt is to improve the <br />value of the Report to Congress and to the Sto.tes of the Colorado River <br />Basin. <br /> <br />5. Tho RGport oontains 0. list of potentinl projoots for irrico.tion, <br />hydro-eleotrio power, o.nd other purposes. whioh might be oonstrueted in <br />the Coloro.do River Bo.sin nnd the Stn'tes thereof. tho o.g::l'ego.te depletions <br />of whioh. together with 1\110wnnoes for present depletions. o.re so.id to <br />exceed the o.vo.ilr,ble wntGr supplies. \-lith rGspect to said list of poten- <br />tinl projects, the Buroau of Roo lemntion So.YSI "Hero nre possible 1'1'0- <br />jeots - here are opportunitiGs for the future. T"o people must decide <br />who.t shall bo done." Homver. tho Bureau points out thnt while the 1'0- <br />tontio.l projects outline the improvemont opportunities and devolop"lOnt <br />pos sibilities of the future. the Report does not present 0. fi nn.l plan, <br />for the reason tM,t "msny intrastate, interstate and internationnl prob- <br />lems must be sclved before n fino.l pattern of development oan be evolvod." <br />nore specificnlly, with respect to dooisions to be made and problems to <br />be solved by the citizens. States and Nations. the Bureo.u seys tho.t in <br />each ~to.te selections must be made from the list of potGntio.l projeots; <br />tho.t intorstate relations m\1st bG dcfined in tho Upper Basin and e lo.ri- <br />fied in the Lower Basin; nnd tho.t the limits of ultimate developmont in <br />tho United ~tates will bo determined in po.rt by o.lIY allocation of water <br />to He:<ioo by troo.t.y betwoon tho two Nntions. <br /> <br />G. The potontial projoct.s described and summarized in the llGport <br />are li sted without rego.rd for the order in whioh they are or will be <br />needed and are lilcoly to be oonstruoted, e.nd witl'x:>ut segrfJgatlon 9.Ocord- <br />inr; to rolntive f"asibility. Hith rospoot to "investigo.tions and public <br />reports of the feo.sibility of 1'ro.1oots." as Iluthorized by 'tho Tloulder <br />Canycn Projeot Act, t.he BUl'eau of RGclamat10n so.ys that, althOUGh re- <br />POl'ts on some individual prcject.s h,we boen published, ndditiono.l de- <br />to.iled investigations will be noedGd t.o determine the relo.tive merits <br />of (listod and o.lterno.tive) projeoto, and must be mo.de before many of <br />tho potcntio.l projects listed in the Repor:t oan be authorized and con- <br />structicn undertaken. <br /> <br />7, IIhile the Report oontains ostimntes of projoct and totnl c 00.- <br />struction oosts it fo.ils to present 1nformo.t:l.on ooncerning the bo.sin- <br /> <br />... <br />