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....." , I and the uses had been in operation for the past 28 years, the water would not have spilled over the dam of the Navajo Dam, over the Reservoir (over the spillway) in all but 7 of those years. There"would be only 7 years out of 28 that it would spill. So their proposal contemplates, in effect, the drying up of the stream and we fear then that the demahd of those downstream uses that are there now, and that are principally Indian uses, (and as Indian uses, you understand, they claim a prior right to any water that may be there), and the possible future expan- sion of those uses will become a burden on the Animas River. I With that background I can't say, or make the statement, of the effects of the Navajo Reservoir more pointedly than Mr. Sparks made it at your meeting of January 14, 1960, when he said: 'Remember again, that the Navajo Reservoir was built as a main stem project, although no benefit accrues whatsoever to the other states by virtue of its construc- tion. Nevertheless, New Mexico was given about two full years of storage Project revenues to build this Navajo Dam. Actually it is"a strictly 100'7. New Mexico project. In it New Mexico can utilize holdover storage. But under the terms of the Upper Colorado River Compact, for some reason unknown to us at the present time, we are required to make annual deliveries into the state of' New Mexico for its allocation based on the flow of the entire Colorado" River. * * * * If we deliver to New Mexico twice as much water as they need or are entitled to in any year, we get no credit" for it. If we have a shortage the ne~ year, we have to make up the full water supply. Yet they have a reservoir which we have helped build in which they can get holdover storage. Consequently, we felt that the first obligation'of that reservoir should be to satisfy downstream requirements, before Colo- rado is called upon to release water from downstream tributaries.' And by downstream tributaries, principally