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'-' A'. -11- for processing oil Shale to produce synthetic fuel oil, a one-million barrel plant, including processing and consumption by domestic users and any allied services, would not consume in excess of 150,000 acre-feet per annum. Without attempting to depreciate the future requirements of water for producing fuel oil from shale in Colorado but as a factual consideration, ~ t should be noted that there is in the world today no oil refining plant having a capacity of 1,000,000 barrels daily; and the , biggest oil refining district in the United States has a production capacity of less than a million barrels a dew. 16. Under this item you charge 50,000 acre-feet to "Evaporation from use-reservoirs". It is believed that this estimate is not excessive, but it must be considered that, in the absence of any engineering reports on the extent of such storage, any fi:;ure to cover such an item is purely arbitrary. 17. In view of. the nature of these cOmIlents, nothing is contained herein that refers to this item i7 of your analysis, except to point out a m3.tter which, I ar.1. sure, you recognize. The lrovisions of the 1943 Amendnent to the Conservancy District Act of 1937 apply to plans and programs for the exportation of l"rater by Water Conservancy Districts organized under such Act. AC'.y individual, legal entity or Colorado municipality constructing and finan- cing a project in Colorado for this purpose would only be required to observe the State Constitution and laws relating to the appropriation and use of water. In other words, the reservation of water for potential development in Western Colorado)l under such 1943 Amendment, applies to such Uater Conservancy Dis- tricts. The plans for a Federal project, proposed for construction in Colorado, are subject to official comments by Colorado under Section I of the 1944 Flood Control Act, and the Colorado Water Conservation Board has adopted the policy in favorably acting upon transmountain diversion projec.ts of following the principles set forth in the 1943 amendment. 18. This item relates to the Colorado shares of salvage water. You fix the charge at 37,933 acre-feet by taking 51.75 per cent of 73,300, which is the average total salvaged channel losses for the Upper Basin during the 1914...1945 peri,od, as found by the Engineering Advisory Committee of the Upper Colorado River Compact Commission. You overlook the fact that these salvage waters are not divisible among the states on a percentage basis. The Compact Engineering Advisory Committee found that the salvage to which Colorado is entitled for the 1914-1945 period is 46,700 acre-feet (Record, Volume III, p. 6). It is reasonable to expect that under conditions at' greater water use the salvage water to which Colorado will be entitled will be much greater in quantity than the average salvage resulting from the use during the 1914-1945 reriod.