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-......" I State Water Resource Planning Development in the State of Colorado' was prepared at great expense, not to mention the work that went into it, and it will be distributed on a very limited scale. As supplements occur they will be mailed to the people who are the holders of this book. We will have a record of everyone who receives this book and as any significant changes occur in any project, they will be forwarded to the holders of the book to be inserted. This is only the first volume. Two more volumes are now in the process of publication. We have spent over a year preparing this but we already have part of the second volume prepared and as rapidly as possible we will prepare these other two vol- umes. I This volume includes only potential projects in the State of Colorado which have not been authorized by the Congress, although in many cases work is now taking place on those projects. I'd like to call attention to the Project Prior- ity List on page 100:1(4). That is, generally, as near as I've been able to determine, what the Board has done in the past. At least that is what is now programed by the Bureau of Recla- mation in the way of priority. You will see that this priority list with the work program goes up through the year 1965. Nothing has been pro- gramed beyond that date. Now the problem arises on these priorities that certainly nothing is fixed by this priority list and it is suscepti- ble to change at any time this Board so desires. The Colorado River Water Conservation Dis- trict has given this matter considerable thought as well as the Southwestern Board and various conservancy districts' boards. I don't think at this time there is any point in trying to say there should be any change in this present list. This is merely to show the Board what is now contemplated. There are some definite recom- mendations that I would like to give to the Board for consideration and possible adoption in evolving a criteria for priority of these proj- ects. There is one thing that I am very much convinced of, and that is that neither the Fed- eral Government nor the State of Colorado should spend money on projects until the local people evidence an interest in the project and are will- ing also to put up some of their own money.