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'.-. The language to which this comment was directed f read as follows: (3) . . .; provided that water not so required to be stored shall be released from Lake Powell: (i) to the extent it can be reasonably applied in the States of the Lower Division to the uses specified in Article III (e) of the Colorado River Compact, (ii) to maintain as nearly as practicable active storage in Lake Mead equal to the active storage in Lake Powell, (fi) to avoid anticipated spills from Lake Powell, and: Prqvided 1 further, That no releases under this subparagraph (3) shall be made when the active storage in Lake Powell is less than the active storage in Lake Mead. (This was the language of H . R. 4671, draft of January 27, 1966.) The language of Section 602 became a part of H .R. 3300 in the 90th Congress, 2d Session, and the House Report on said bill, being House Report No. 1312, 90th Congress 1 2d Session, explained Section 602 at pages 84 through 87. [That language is included herein as Appendix 3.J Basically there is not a great deal of change from the House Report of the previous Congress, above mentioned. In this report the House Interior Committee characterizes the clauses herein descri.bed as "three specific operating criteria I" and again the Committee stated that perhaps under criterion (ii) there may be need to operate Lake Powell over a limited period of time different from the criteria, The Senate Report in the 90th Congress f First Session, Senate Report No. 408 to accompany S. 1004 ,at pages 62 through 6S [attached hereto as Appendix 4], was, for all practical purposes I the same as the language in the House Report above cited for the 89th Congress. The Conference report, House Report 1861, 90th Congress, 2d Session, did not add any information which would indicate that the Secretary was intended 6