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C. EDUCATION - INFORMATION 1. GENERAL COOPERATION The Upper Colorado River Commission has directed its Education and Information program toward promoting interstate cooperation, harmony, and united efforts; developing an understanding in other sec- tions of the United States of the problems ofthe Upper Colorado River Basin; and the creation of a favorable attitude on the part of Congress with respect to the development of the industrial and agricultural resources of the Upper Colorado River Basin, The Commission has continued to cooperate with members of the Congressional delegations from the Upper Colorado River Basin States and with officials of the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Reclamation in seeking appropriations of funds by the Congress for the construction of the Storage Units and participating projects authorized for construction, as well as funds for the investigations of additional participating projects that are given priority in planning in the Colorado River Storage Project Act. As part of this cooperation, the Commission's Executive Director has been in Washington, D. C. at intermittent peri- ods, acting as liaison between the Congress and the States and various departments of government, supplying information, arranging and tak- ing part in Congressional hearings, and providing other assistance re- quested. 2. LIBRARY Efforts are being continued to accumulate all types of engineering, legal, economics, and semi-technical documents related to the Colorado River Basin to comprise a well-equipped and efficiently-operating permanent library. As materials are collected for inclusion in the library, they are cataloged in the Commission's computer system. Also, many thousands of pages of documents have been placed on microfiche. Information in the Commission's library will be available to any of its member States on short notice should a need arise. Studies are being made, supplemented, or collected to address the many problems associated with the develop- ment, utilization, and conservation of water and hydroelectric resources of the Colorado River Basin. The continuing program of library expansion has been maintained. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition of information which illumines that growing body oflaw known as the "law of the river." Since the Environ- mental Protection Agency and the Western Area Power Administration 32