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OJU395 -6- acreages irrigated, power generated, or other benefits to result from such projects; and, while the Report states or infers that such benefits will appear in basin-wide reports in preparation for the importing basins, Colo- rado points out that projects for importing water to the South Platte River, a tributary of the ~Iissouri River, were not inoluded in the IIi.ssouri River Basin Report, and the.t the Report On the Arkansas River Basin is said to be in preparation in the Amarillo offioe, while projeots for importing wa- ter to thl.t be.sin are being investigated, planned and designed in the Denver offioe. , 14. In further sUPFort of the ceneral suggestions outlined in para- graph 11, attention is direoted, next, to the interstate problems thnt are s!lid to await solutions in the Upper Basin, namely, that interstate relations among all States of the Upper Division must be defined. Colo. rado asserts, and suggests . the Report be revised to show. that the physi- cal oonditions whioh generally prevail in the Upper Basin are such that the streamflows of the Colorado River and its major tributaries are being used only in the one State in whioh they are produoed tv the natural pre- cipitation and runoff therein, - and henoe there are no pending or threat- ened oontroversies bet~en adjoining States concerning the use of such streamflows; that such oontroversies as have arisen in the past, or are likely to arise in the Mure, involve a relatively few minor tributaries, such as the La Plata River, at ributary of the San Juan River, where an intersta.te compact heretofore has been ratified between Colora.do nnd Hew Nexico, and ti'e Little Snake River, a tributary of the Yampa River, where an interstate compact is being negotiated between Colorado and l:yoming; and that similar controversies as they may arise in the future are ex- pected to be adjusted when and as they arise, by the tv.o States and their interested oitizens, as provided by Art. VI of the Colorado River Compact, with the aid of and based on the factual information supplied by the Bureau of Reclamation and other'State and Federal agenoies. 1,. Concerning the definition of interstate relations in the Upper Basin, as requested by the Report, Colorado admits that a compact !Ullong the States of the Upper Division, as contemplated in the Colorado River Compaot, will eventually be needed to define the rela.tive rights and ob- ligations of the respective States, and should be negotiated before the final stage of ultimate development in the Upper Basin is reaohed; but asserts that suoh a oompact ie desirable but not praoticable at the present time. As indicated by the Report, present development in the Up- per Basin, including allowanoes for projects now authorized but not yet oompleted, involves the use of but one-third of the quantity of water heretofore apportioned to the Upper Basin by Art. III (a) of the Colorado River Compact. Be'fore a oompaot among States of the Upper Division wi 11 be needed, to recognize and proteot existing developments in eaoh State, and define the interests of each in the waters of the Upper Basin await- ing future develo~ent, it appears desirable that sufficient additional time should elapse during whioh projeots mi ght be oonstruoted that would at least double the present utilization of water in the Upper Basin, and during whioh the Bureau of Reclamation might complete the necessary de- tailed investigations of all development possibilities. Before a final and permanent compaot among States of the Upper D1.'ision oan be negotiated, . .