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<br /> <br />....L_ <br /> <br />1944. the Bureau of Recl8l!lll.tion tranmitted to Congress an Inventory of Pro_ <br />jects considered suitable for construction in the postwar period in all the <br />stre8ll\ basine of the Seventeen Western States. Colorado suggests that the <br />initial list of projects to be designated in the Report be seleoted from <br />-said Inventory of Postwar Projeots, ~d oonsist of all those considered <br />suitable for postwar construction which oan, be operated without thereby <br />oausing the, beneficial consumptive use of waters of the Colorado River sys_ <br />tem from sxceeding the quantities of water heretofore apportioned for suoh <br />use to the Upper Basin and to the Lower Basin by Art. III (a) and (b) of <br />the Colorado River Compact, and without thereby causing the flow of the <br />Colorado River at Lee Ferry to be depleted, below an aggregate of 75,000,000 <br />acre feet for any period of ten consecutive years, as provided by Art. III <br />(d) of sai d compact, and without thereby causing 'the beneficial consumptive <br />use of _tel'" in. anyone state of the Upper Division from exoeediDg the <br />quantity of water which that State contributed \1Ilder virgin condi'tions 'to <br />the waters of the Colorado River system, provided.tha't, this shall not be <br />'oonstrued as relieving any state from delivering its fair share at Lee <br />,Ferry to make good the tenns of the C.olorado River Compact. <br /> <br />11. Direoting attention, next, to revisions of the Report to improve <br />its value to the citizens and Sta'tes of the Colorado River Basin, Colorado <br />,admits that the intrastate, interstate and international. problems mention- <br />ed therein must eventually be solved before the final stages of ultimate <br />development are reaohed, but denies that suoh prob-Iems should be under- <br />taken or oan be solved all at onoe and promptly. as'etated or implied by <br />the Report. On the oontrary Colorado asserts, and suggests the Report be <br />revised to show, that suoh problema are inter-relatsd end the solutions <br />of some are dependent on the previous solutions or others, that suoh prob- <br />lems must'be and are being solved one at a time, or in stages, and in an <br />. orderly manner as they are oonfronted; that solutions of' reoognized prob- <br />lems, &.s well as others to arise in the future, are dependent in, part on <br />data beiDg and to be compiled by the Bureau of Reclematilm. in addition <br />to that sUlTllll&rized in the Report; and that deoisions on sOllIe of the prob- <br />lems: oannot be made until further development has been accomplished by <br />additional oonetruotion in the-basin. <br /> <br />12. In support of the foregoing general suggestions, attention i., <br />direoted, first, to the intrastate problems that are said to await solu- <br />tions by Colorado and ite oitizens, namely, of making seleotions from the <br />potential projeots or de.velopnent possibilities listed in the Report. As <br />the Report points out, additional detailed investigations and individual <br />project feasibility reports will be needed to, determine relative merits, <br />and hence are necessary before the requested final selections CBn be <br />made. Colorado asserts that"during the period of more than sixteen years <br />sinoe the Boulder Canyon Project Act was adopted, which authorized the ' <br />making of suoh investigations end reports, the Bureau of Reclamation has <br />completed them for less than 20 percent of the potential projeots or <br />known developnent possibilities in Colorado; that, until suoh investiga- <br />tions and reports are canpleted by the Bureau of Reoleme.tion for the re- <br />mainiDg more than 80 peroent of the possible Colorado projeots, the <br />State and its oitizen. oannot fully solve their intraetate problems nor <br />make the final seleotion. requested in the Report, and that such selec- <br /> <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />.i <br />