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<br />J,.w/O <br /> <br />report; and second are the appendices. <br />The text, as has been stated by Mr. <br />Barkley, will be couched in language <br />which, for example, as far as engineers <br />are concerned we laymen can understand <br />and so far as engineers are concerned, <br />as to the legal aspects, they, as laymen, 1 <br />will understand, and those who are not <br />trained in either field will be able to <br />follow. The appendices will contain the <br />detailed technical data. For example, <br />I wouldn't like for this report from Mr. <br />McClellan consisting of several pages <br />to find its way into the text and have <br />to be waded through in reaching your <br />final conclusion. <br /> <br />So far as the first part of this <br />report is concerned, the historical analy- <br />sis and the factual background, there <br />will be little, if any, change from the <br />preliminary report. Possibly some few <br />additions. Governor Johnson has suggested <br />some changing in wording which he thinks <br />strengthens it and that will be incor- <br />porated.in it. Possibly some other ob- <br />servations may be included. That will <br />be decided as we dictate it. For exam- <br />ple, in digressing a little, I became <br />interested to know why the State of Colo- <br />rado, through its Water Conservation <br />Board, so strongly supported the Boulder <br />Canyon Project Adjustment Act. Now ap- <br />parently California's dontention is <br />somewhat based upon the. conclusion that <br />the Boulder Canyon Project AdJustment <br />Act required some broadening of the <br />authority of the Secretary of the In- <br />terior to enter into these power con- <br />tracts. So I read the_.proceedings be- <br />fore the Insular and Interior Affairs <br />Committee in 1939, at which proceedings <br />Judge Stone appeared and testified, as <br />did also representatives of the other <br />basin states and there was unanimity of 1 <br />agreement among them. Colorado, inci- <br />dentally, supported it largely because <br /> <br />thetPfrojdectt Act seti utP a riivter devellop- . <br />men un 0 come n 0 ex s ence on y <br />after Hoover Dam cost was entirely paid <br />off, which might be fifty or seventy- <br />five ~ears hence, and we didn't want <br />to wait that long to find out what could <br />