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000390 iiarch 20, 1945 STI,TEtlENT OF STATE OF COLORAUO By Colorado ,'!ater Conservation Boo.rd Concerning Report on Colorado River Basin In Preparation by Bureau of Reclamation L 1. The Report in preparation by the Bureau of ReclaQation, United sto.tes Department of Interior, dated November 1944, entitled, "A compre- hensive Report on the ControJ., Improvement and Utilization of the !:ater Resources of the Colorado River Basin in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, i!ew Ue::ico, Utah and !}yoming," has been submitted in tentative and incomplete form to said States for their comaents and su:;gestions. In its revised final form the Report is to be transmitted to Congress for adoption and publioation. 2. The Report on the Colorado River Basin is said to ho.ve been pre- pared in compliance with Sec. 15, 45 Stat. 1057, the Boulder Co.nycn Pro- ject Act adopted December 21, 1928, which authorized and directed the Bureau of Reclamation "to make investigations and public reports of the feasibility of projects for irrigation, generation of electrio power, and other purposes in the states of Arizona, Hevada, Colorado, Hew I:exico, Utah =d !!yoming for the purpose of making such information available to said Stetes and to Congress, and of formulatinG a comprehensive scheme of oontrol and improvement and utilization of the wa+~r of the Colorado River and its tributaries;" and Seo. 2, 54 stat. 7'/4, the Boulder Canyon Froject Adjustment Act adopted July 8, 1940, whioh authorized the "con- tinuation and extension of studies and investigations by the 3ureau of Reclamation for the formulation of a comprehensive plan for the utiliza- tion of waters of the ColoradO River system for irrigation, eleotrical power, and other purposes, in the ste.tes of the Upper Division and the states of the Lower Division, including studies of quantity and quality of water and all other relevant factors." .! 3. Other reports of the Bureau of Reolamation with which t~ Re- port under consideration will be c cnnpared by Congress inc lude I (a) Report on llissouri River Basin, dated l.pril 1944, trans- mitted to and adopted by Congress and published as Senate Document 191, 78th Congress, 2d Session, - being the first of a series of cor;rprehen- sive or basin-wide reports contemplated by the Bureau of Recl!lJllation, one for each of the dozen or more major stream systems or natural drain- age basins in the Seventeen Western States. (b) The document entitled, "Inventory of Irrigation and Hulti- pIe Purpose Projects for Construction in the Post liar Period," in the Seventeen \-lestern states, transmitted to Congress by the Bureau of Recla- mation on Jlme 6, 1944, and published as "Part 5 - Recl!lJllation, Irrigation