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<br />OiJJ391 <br /> <br />-2- <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />and Power Projects" of the Hearings. pursuant to Senate Resolution 102. <br />before the Sub-Committee on Roads and Reolamation of the Senate Com- <br />mittee on Postwar Eoonomic Policy and Planning. <br /> <br />h. The following OODll,lents and suggestions, relative to the Heport <br />on the Colorado River Basin, oonstitute a Statement by and in behalf of <br />the stnte of Colorado, and are made by the Colorado Hater Conservation <br />Board as authorized by Chapter 265. Session Laws of 19Y!. Inasmuch as <br />pages 11 to 15 of the Report. being the seotion entitled. "Sumnary and <br />Recomnendntions." are blank in the oopies submitted to Colorado. but are <br />to be filled in qy the Bureau of Reolamation in the revised final drnft <br />transmitted to Congress, this Statement shall be oonsidered preliminary <br />and incomplete. and subjeot to suoh ~endment as Colorado may deem neoes- <br />sary or advisable if and when the reoommendations of the Report are made <br />knOI',n to the State. The intention of the Stater.lent is to improve the <br />value of the Report to Congress and to the Stntes of the Colorado River <br />Basin. <br /> <br />5. The Report oontnins a list of potential projeots for irriGation. <br />hydro-eleotric power, and other purposes, whioh might be oonstruoted in <br />the Colorado River Basin and the States thereof, the ag::regnte depletions <br />of which. together with allowanoes for present depletions. nre said to <br />exoeed the availe.ble water supplies. llith respeot to said list of poten- <br />tial projeots, the Bureau of Reolamation saysl "Here are possible pro- <br />jeots - here are opportunities for the future. T"s people must decide <br />what shall be done." However. the Bureau points out that while the po. <br />tential projects outline the improvement opportunities and development <br />pos sibili ties of the future, the Report does not present a final plan, <br />for the reason that "many intrastate, interstate and internationnl prob- <br />lems must be solved before a final pattern of, development oan be evolved," <br />Hore speoifioally. with respeot to decisions to be made and problems to <br />be solved by the citizens. States and Nntions. the Bureau says that in <br />eaoh state selections must be made fran the list of potential projeots; <br />that interstate relntions must be defined in the Upper Basin and c lari- <br />fied in the Lower Basin; and that the limits of ultimate development in <br />the United States will be determined in part by any allooation or vmter <br />to Hexioo by treaty between the two Nations. <br /> <br />'" <br /> <br />6. The potential projeots desoribed and summarized in the Report <br />are listed without regard for the order in which they are or will be <br />needed and are likely to be oonstruoted, and without segregation aooord- <br />ing to relative feasibility. IUth respeot to "investigations end public <br />reports of the feasibility of projects," as authorized by the Boulder <br />Canyon Projeot Act, the Bureau of Reclamation says that. althouc;h re- <br />ports on some individual projects have been published, additional de- <br />tailed investigations will be needed to determine the relative merits <br />of (listed and alternative) projeots, and must be made before many of <br />the potential projeots listed in the Report oan be authorized and con- <br />struotion undertaken. <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />7. Hhile the Report oontains estimates oJ: projeot and total oon- <br />struotion oosts it fails to present information oonoerning the basin- <br />