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<br />, <br /> <br /> <br />the estimates of the Bureau of Reol~tion oannot be oheoked by Colorado <br />engineers. Herein previously Colorado ~s suggested that results. of reser- <br />voir operation studies should appear in the Report, to disolose the effects' <br />of streamfiOVf' regulation and the additional quantities of water to be de- <br />livered at Lee Ferry during drouth oyola" by the operations of suoh reser- <br />voirs' in the Upper Basin, and the additional quantities of water to beoome <br />available for diversion and use in the Lower Basin during drouth oycles as <br />a result of the operations of such reservoirs in both the Upper and Lower <br />Basins. Colorado also suggests that the Report disolose at what stages <br />the main-stem Upper Basin reservoiramay be required, in relation to: (a) <br />Upper Basin development; and (b) the estimated power defioienoies of the <br />Lower Basin marketing area. <br /> <br />51. Colorado noteS' that future eleotrio energy requirements of the <br />Upper Basin are forecast in the Report for the Upper Basin natural area, <br />and for the lower Basin power marketing area inoluding all of Southern <br />California. Uniform treatment of the two basins would diotate the use of <br />natural basin boundaries, with data for adjoining areaa in whioh Colorado <br />River power is being or may be marketed within feasible transmission dis~ <br />tMoes. This will bring Salt Lake, on the West, and Denver and other <br />cities, on the East, into the power marketing areas of the Upper Basin, <br />and will necessitate data conoerning existing and potential power develop- <br />ment in suoh adjoining areas. llith respeot to the region east of the Con- <br />tinental Divide in Colorado, the power output of the Colorado-Big Thompson, <br />Eagle-Blue-South Platte, ~nd Gunnison-Arkansas exportation projeots will <br />become involved. In that regard, ColoradO says, and suggests the Report <br />be revised to show, that the potentialities for the production of hydro- <br />eleotrio power by suoh projeots, initiated and needed for the purpose of <br />irrigation, are necessary parts of their over-all eoonomio feasibility, and <br />the po,,",r markets of eastern Colorado must be served, first, by the power <br />produoed by suoh dual-purpose projects. ' <br /> <br />. <br />, <br />lS, <br />51- <br /> <br />son <br />