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~u~v the Upper Basin proceed with'Out delay. Fifth, that an equitable criteria for the operati'On of the Upper Basin reserv'Oirs, along with the L'Ower Basin reservoirs, be warked 'Out. By subsequent acti'On 'Of the Board in 1966 '1 we reaffirmed, again by res'Oluti'On, our previ'Ous stand but we 'Omitted one thing. We omitted the requirement far the auth'Orizati'On 'Of a project t'O take care of the Mexican Treaty problem. We requested only that a rec'Onnaissance study be made. When S. 1004 was passed this past July, that bill cantained everything in it that Celo- rado had requested, with 'One exception. That exception was the augmentatian 'Of the Calarad'O River, both far the Mexican Treaty and far future uses. Other than that the Senate bill, as enacted by the Senate. contained everything that Colorado had requested. In my mem'Orandum to the Baard of August 16th of this year, I tried t'O make a thoraugh analysis 'Of that Senate bill and paint aut its g'Ood paints and its bad peints. The 'Only bad feature ab'Out it was that it ignored the Mexican Treaty prablem and the general sh'Ort- age 'Of water in the Colorada River which, obviously, we consider to be a serious deficien- cy. Going ta that prablem 'Of augmenting the water supply there were tw'O major factors that have held up this legislation as far as the C'Ongress is concerned and they bath went to the augmentation. The first was the proposed c'On- struction of the Hualapai and Marble Canyon Dams. We in col'Orad'O had absolutely n'O interest in th'Ose dams per se. Our sale interest in them was that they were m'Oney pr'Oducers far a basin 1 fund which would assist to pay for any augmenta- tian pr'Ojects. That was 'Our 'Only interest in them. These dams praduce na water whats'Oever and help us in n'O way, but they did, the tw'O 'Of them, produce something in excess of $1 bi11i'On inta the basin fund, 'Or cl'Ose to $1 billion. The