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o J. ";"-, - (( I I \ I I \ I I I -4- 1944, the Bureau of Renlamntion tr!lnsmHted to Congress an Inventory of Pro- jects considered suitable for construction in the postwo.r period in all tho strenm basins of the Seventeen \'~stern states. Colorado ouge;ests tho.t the initial list of projeots to be designated in the Report be selected from said Inventory of Postwar Projects, !Uld oonsist of all those considered suitablo for postwar construction whioh cnn be operated without thereby c!lusinll the beneficial consumptiVe USe of waters of the COlorado River sys- tem from exoeeding the quantities of water heretofore apportioned for such use to the Upper !lasin and to the lower !lasin by Art. III (a) and (b) of '!;he C010r(\do River Comp!lot, and without thereby oausing the flow of the Colorado River 0.'0 Lee Ferry to be depleted be low !In aggregate of 75.000.000 aore feot for any period of ten oonseouti ve yeo.rs, as provided by Art. III (d) of said compo.ct, and without thereby causing the beneficio.l oonsUJnptive Use of W!lter in anyone St!lte of the Upper Division from exoeedin;; the quantity of water which th!lt State contributed unorr virgin oonditions to the waters of' the Colorado River system, provided that this shall not be oonstrued as relieving any state from delivering its f!lir sho.re 11.'0 Lee Ferry to make good the terms of the Colorado River Compact. n. Direoting attention, next, to revisions of the Report to improve its value to the oitizens and States of the Colorado River Basin, Colorado admits that the intrastate, interstate and international problems mention- ed therein must eventually be solved before the final stages of ultimate development o.re reached, but denies that suoh problems should be under- taken or oan be solved all at onoe and promptly, as stated or implied by the Report. On the contrary ColoradO asserts, !lnd suggests the Report be revised to show, that such problems are inter-related nnd the solutions of some are dependent on the previous soluti ons of othersl that suoh prob- lems must be and are being solved one at a time, or in stages, and in an orderly manner as they nre oonfronted; that solutions of reoof1lized prob- loms, ns well as others to Clriso in the futuro, Clre dependent in part on data being and to be oompiled by the Bureau of Reolamation. in addition to th!lt summarized in the Report; and that deoisions on some of tho prob- lems c!lnnot be m!lde until further development has boen accomplished by !ldditionCll co'nstruotion in the b!lsin. 12. In s'upport of tho foro!,:oinr, C;encrnl sur;c;estions, attention is dil'ontod. fit.ai"., to tho ini:l'Cls~!lto problems I;hnt Clre said to await solu- tions by Coloro.do !lnd its citizens, namely, of making selections from the potential projeots or development possibilities listed in the Report. As the Report points out, additional det!liled investigations nnd individual project feasibi lity reports vlill be needed to determine relCltive merits, !lnd hence Clre necoss!lry bofore the requosted finnl selections cnn be mCldo. Oolor!ldo asserts thClt, during the period of more than sixteon years since the Boulder C!lnyon Project Act was adopted, which authorized the making of such investig!ltions o.nd repcrts, the Bureau of Reolam!ltion h!ls completed them for less th!ln 20 percent of tho potentiCll projeots or knol'41 developmont possibil1 tie s in ColorCldo; that. until such investign- tions and reports are oompleted by tho BurQau of Reolam!ltion for the re- maining more than 80 percont of tho possible Colorado projects, the St!lte !lnd its citizens cannot fully solve their intr!l.8tata problems nor make the final se lections roquested in the Report; and that suoh se leo-