BOARD01635

• Board Meeting Date: 3/26/1945
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

wide or regional benefi~s expeoted to ~ltimately resul~ from the improve-
ments and developments outlined by suoh projeote, and fails to i~dioate
how muoh of the total investment may be expeoted' to be returned 01" repaid
by water and power users and other looal benefioiaries, Neverthelese the
Bureau of Reolamation says. that the Colorado River Basin oan be develop-
ed into one of the most prosperous seotions of.the oountry, and tha~
max1m\llll development of the Colorado River is neoessary, not wly for the
eoonomio stabilization and growth of the Colorado River Basin, but also
for the benefit of the entire Nation~ upon the theory that true National
prosperity can be achieved only by the prosperity of all oomponent parts
of the integrated eoonomic system.

8. To improve the value of the Report to Congress, and in behalf
of the entire Colorado River Basin and its development in oompeti~ion
with other na~=al drainage basins and s~relUll systems. Colorado suggests
that the Report be revised to inolude information oonoerning the basin-
wide or regional benefits to result fran ~he full utilization of water.
and to show the relations between total oonstruotion oosts and ultimate
benefitli'. and how muoh of the investment in the Colorado River Basin may
be expeoted to be repaid in time by water and power users and other looal
benefioiaries. Colorado submits that. in the absenoe of such showings.
the Report on the Colorado River Basin will oompare unfavorably with ~he
,. previously transmi tted Report on the Missouri River Basin, and perhaps with
others in preparation by the Bureau of ReolMl/l.tion. Assuming the informa-
tion oonoerning benefits and returns is. inoluded in the Report, Colorado
suggests that a reoommendation appear therein to the effeot that the
general improvement program and ultimate development plan broadly out-
lined by the potential projeots listed in the Report be approved by Con-
gress subjeot to suoh modifioations end ohm:Iges therein as may be imi-
oated, from time to time. by the additional data and information aoquired
as additional detailed investigations are oompleted on potential and
alternative projeots. and as general investigations areoontinued in the
basin; and subjeot to suoh modifioations and ohanges therein as may be
diotated' by the solutions of intrastate and interstate problems by the
oitizenli' and States of the Colorado River Basin. and of international
problems by the two Nati ons.

9. To further improve the value of the Report to Congress. and
prevent it from halting. instead of promoting, the development of the
Colorado River BasIn. Colorado suggests the designation therein of an
initial list of p~ojeots, oonstituting the next or postwar or near-future
stage of oonstruotion, together with a recOIIlIIlendation to Congress that
said initial list of projeots be adopted,. snd that the Bureau of Reola-
mation be authorized to spend the SUIII of money to be speoified in the
Report (oonsistent with the SUIII speoified in the Missouri River Basin
Report) on the oommenoement of oonstruotion of' said initial list of pro-
jeots. and on the oontinuation of additional detailed project investiga-
tions and further general investigations incident to the improvement and
development of the Colorado River Basin.