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<br />on0393 <br /> <br />-4- <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />1944, the Bureau of Reolamation transmitted to Congress an Inventory of Pro- <br />jeots oonsidered suitable for construction in the postwar ?,riod in all the <br />stream basins of the Seventeen Hastern States. Colorado suggests that the <br />initial list of projeots to be designated in the Report be selected from <br />said Inventory of Postwar Projects, and consist of all those considered <br />sui table for postwar construction which can be operated without thereby <br />causing the beneficial consumptive use of waters of the Colorado River sys- <br />tem from exceeding the quantities of water heretofore apportioned for such <br />use to the Up?,r Basin and to the lewer Basin by Art. III (a) and (b) of <br />the Colorado River Compact, and without thereby oausing the flow of the <br />Colorado River at Lee Ferry to be depleted below an aggregate of 75,000,000 <br />aore feet for any period of ten consecuti ve years, as provided by Art. III <br />(d) of said compact. and without thereby causing the benefioial oonsumptive <br />use of water in anyone State of the Upper Division from exoeeding the <br />quantity of water which thnt State contributed undrr virgin conditions to <br />the waters of the Colorado River system, provided that this shall not be <br />construed as relieving any state from delivering its fair share at Lee <br />Ferry to make good the terms of the Colorado River Compact. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />11. Directing attention, next, to revisions of the Report to improve <br />its value to the citizens and States of the Colorado River Basin, Colorado <br />admits that the intrastate, interstate and international problems mention- <br />ed therein must eventually be solved before the final stages of ultimate <br />develOpment are reached, but denies that such problems should be under- <br />taken or can be solved all at once and prompt ly, as stated or iJnp lied by <br />the Report. On the contrary Colorado asserts, and suggests the Roport be <br />revised to show, that such problema are inter-related and the solutions <br />of some are dependent on the previous solutions of others; that such prob- <br />lems must be and are being solved one at a time. or in stages, and in an <br />orderly manner as they are oonfronted; that solutions of recognized prob- <br />lems. as well as others to arise in the future. are dependent in part on <br />data being and to be compiled by the Bureau of Rec l.e.me.tion. in addition <br />to that summarized in the Report; and that decisions on soma of the prob- <br />lems cannot be made until further development has been accomplished by <br />additional construction in the basin. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />12. In support of the foregoing general suggestions, attention is <br />directed. first, to the intrastate problems that are said to await solu- <br />tions by Colorado end its citizens, namely, of making selections from the <br />potential projects or development possibilities listed in the Report. As <br />the Report points out, additional detailed investigations and individual <br />project feasibi lity reports will be needed to determine relative merits. <br />and hence are necessary before the requested final selections cc\!! be <br />made. Oolorado asserts that, during the period of more than sixteen years <br />since the Boulder Canyon Project Act was adopted. which authorized the <br />making of such investigations and reports, the Bureau of Reclamation has <br />completed them for less than 20 percent of the potential projects or <br />known develOpment possibilities in Colorado; that, until suoh investiga- <br />tions and reports are completed by the Bureau of Reolamation for the re- <br />maining more than 80 peroent of the possible Colorado projects, the <br />State end its citizens cannot fully solve their intrastate problems nor <br />me.k:e the final selections requested in the Report; and that such selec- <br />