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<br />42. With respect to export diversions from the Colorado River system
<br />above Lee Ferry, for use outside the natural basin in states of the Upper
<br />Division, the Report shows existing ""portations averaging 181,000 acre
<br />feet annuallYI an allowance of 458,000 acre feet for projects now author-
<br />ized or under constructionl and potential exportations by projeots listed
<br />in the report estimated at 2,132,000 acre feet annually. E~ortation pro-
<br />jects in and for the benefit of Colorado are shown in the Report to involve
<br />existing exportations of 102,000 acre feet, an allowance of 420,000 acre
<br />feet for projects now authorized or under construction, and estimated ex-
<br />portations by listed potential projeots averaging 1,267,000 acre feet an-
<br />nually. Colorado says the existing exportation projeots in Colorado, in
<br />their present status of construction, are diverting 135,000 acre feet an-
<br />nually under normal climatic conditionsl that the potential export diver-
<br />sion projects are i.properly desoribed in the Reportl that such descrip-
<br />tions as may appear in the revised final draft of the Report should be
<br />prepared by or be in accordance with the most recent and feasible plans
<br />of the regional directors in char ge of such investigations and projeot re-
<br />portsl and that the estimated depletion allowances for potential exporta-
<br />tion projeots in Colorado do. not adequately reflect the opportunities and
<br />probabilities of such diversions, and are far below the possibilities of
<br />such developments in Colorado, if questions of project feasibility and
<br />eoono1l\ic justification be 6Valuated upon the sellIe basis as that employed
<br />for other competitive projects listed in the Report.
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<br />43. Existing exportation projects in Colorado, in their present sta-
<br />tus of construction, and in an average year of normal olimatic conditions,
<br />are now diverting waters of the ColoradO River system, to the extent of
<br />73,400 acre feet to the Soul;h Platte River basin, 58,100 acre feet to the
<br />Al'kansa.s River basin, and 4,200 aore feet to the Rio Grande basin, or a
<br />total of 135,700 acre feet annually, as shown in detail by individual pro-
<br />jects in the statement of the State of Colorado presented at the meeting
<br />in Reno, Nevada, July 20, 1944. Note, from said statement, that 51,400
<br />acre feet are being diverted by City of Denver developments, and that
<br />allowances are necessary for increased future exportations by enterprises
<br />heretofore constructed and now in operation, which allowances for City of
<br />Denver and other projects are estimated at 132,300 acre feet annually,
<br />and which with existing diversions will bring the total to 268,000 acre
<br />feet annually. The allowance made in the Report for increased exporta~
<br />tions by existing projects is 100,000 acre feet (City of Denver), which
<br />Colorado says is inadequate to oover also all other projeots now operat-
<br />ing.
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<br />44. Allowanc~3 madll in the Report for future exportations of projects
<br />now authorized or under construction in Colorado aggregating 420,000 aCre
<br />feet (Denver 100,000 and ColoradO-Big Thompson 320,000 aore feet), In
<br />this category the Report should inc lude 21,000 acre feet for the Weminuche
<br />Pass Tunnel unit of the authorized San Luis Valley project (page 120 of
<br />Report).
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<br />45. Opportunities for future exportations of Colorado River water
<br />for use in the San Luis Valley in Colorado include the piedra-Rio Grande
<br />diversion (70,000 acre feet, described at page 120), whioh includes two
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