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projects already authorized, there is not much comfort you can take in that, and that is where the process becomes deadly. It is stated at the very beginning, that these principles will apply to all projects now in the planning stage I . unless some exception is made by the Water Resources Council, and that they will not apply to projects already submitted to the Congress for authorization. I would assume, Quincy, that this would include the Closed Basin. The joker is, however, that the principles state that for any project already authorized if construction has not been started within five years from the date of authorization, then the project has to be reformulated under these principles. Assum- ing that somebody can decipher these principles and determine how to apply them to a project, we are then talking about a review process, which will be very costly and probably consume a period of several years. I doubt that we have any project authorized today in Colorado upon which construction will start within five years. It may still be possible to meet the five-year construction date on the Narrows. Since it was only authorized in 1970, we still have three years to get construction started. But on all the rest of the projects, the Animas- La Plata, the Dolores, San Miguel, Dallas, West Divide, and even projects that were authorized before that, Savery-Pot Hook, Fruitland Mesa, those projects could, and would, be eliminated under these principles. The principles do make some exception, they say construction or similar activity. I don't know of any activity which is similar to con- struction. It is either construction or it is not, but that is the way they read. In effect, I we are facing a deauthorization of everything we have worked for in this state for the past thirty years. The problem is who determines when construction money is going to be released. We used to think it was Congress; but now by the simple expedient of withholding funds, as -56-