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<br /> <br />?fi <br />40 <br /> <br />March 28, 1945 <br /> <br />STATEl1ENT OF STATE OF COLORADO <br />. <br /> <br />By <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br /> <br />;)': <br /> <br />Conoerning Report' on Colorado River Basin <br />In Preparation by Bureau of Reol!llllation <br /> <br />"', <br /> <br />. ,'1,. The Report in preparation by the Bureau of Reolamation, United <br />States Department of Interior, date~ ~ov~ber ,1944, entitled, "A Compre- <br />hensive Report on the Control, Improvement and;Util~zation of the Water <br />.' Resouroes of the Colorado Riv",r Basin in Arizona," California, Colorado, <br />Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming," has been submitted in te.ntative <br />and inoomplete form to said States for their oomments and suggestions. <br />In ih revised final form the report is to be. transmi tted to Congress <br />for adoption and publioation., <br /> <br />2. The Report on the Colorado River.Basin is said to have been pre- <br />pared in compliance with Seo. 15, .45 Stat, 1057, the Boulder Canyon Pro- <br />ject Act !'dopted December. 21, 1928, whiCh !'uthorfzed end directed the <br />Bureau of Reolamation "t.o make investigations and public repo",!! of the <br />. feasibility of projects for irrigation, tenerationpf electrio power, <br />and other purposes in the States of. Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, <br />.Utah and Wyoming f'or the purpose of' making, such inf'ormation available to <br />said. States !,nd to Congress, and .of formulating a comprehensive soheme of <br />control and improvement and utilization of the water of the Colorado <br />River and its tributaries;" and Sec. 2,.54 Stat.. 774" the Boulder Canyon <br />Project Adjustment Act adopted July 8, 1940, ..hiob- authorized the "eon- <br />. tinuation and extension of studies and inves'tigatione..by' the B'urel>,uof <br />Reclamation for th", formulation of. oomprehensive.plan for the utilisa- <br />tionof waters of the Colorado River system fo.r irrigation, eclectrioal <br />po""r, and other purposes, in the States of the Upper Divieion and the <br />States of the Lower Division, including studiea of quantity and' quality <br />af water and all other relevant factors." <br /> <br />;. Other'reportll of the Bureau of Reolamation with whioh the Re- <br />part under consideratio.n will .be compared by Congress' include. <br /> <br />(a) Report on Nissouri, River Basin, .dated April 1944, trans-. <br />mit"ted to and adopted by Contress and. published as Slm&.t.eDooument 191, <br />7Bth Congress, gndSession, - being the first,~f a sertes of comprehen- <br />sive or basin-wide reports contemplat"d by the Bureau of Reolam.e.tion, <br />ane for each of the dozen or more major strelllllsys.tems or natural drain- <br />age basins in the Seventeen Western state.s. <br /> <br />(b) The document entitled, "Inventory of Irrigation and Multi- <br />~le Purpose Projects for Construction in.the Poet War Period," in the <br />Seventeen Western ,States, transmitted to. Congress by the Bureau of Recla- <br />mation on June 6, 1944. and published as "Part 5 - Reclamation, Irrigfl.tion <br />