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001478 -14- III - EXPORTATIONS. PLAHNING State of Colorado may ultimately involve 2.000.000 a0re-feet annually (with fluotuations by years and oycles in aooordance with r.atural preoipitation and runoff). segregated as follows. .() Completed enterprises in operation Allowanoes for probable extensions Combined Projeots under oonstruotion Projeots authorized for oonstruotion Contemplated for post-war oonstruotion Possible future developments (lmown projeots) 135.700 AF. 132.300 co 268.000 AF. 310.000 20.000 1.144.000 258,000 Total 2,000.000 AF. 18. With respeot to proposed exportations of water from the Colorado Ri- ver System. aoross or through the Continental Divide, for use in other stream basins in the State of Colorado. the polioy of the State is expressed in that sentenoe of the Colorado ,later Conservanoy Distriot Law (Seo. 13, Session Laws of 1937, as amended) whioh provides that. "any works or faoi liti es planned or designed for the exporta- tion of water from the natural basin of the Colorado River and its tributaries in Colorado *** shall be subjeot to the provisions of the Colorado River Compaot (see Note a) and the Boulder Canyon Projeot Aot as amended;" that "anysuoh works or faoilities shall be designed, oonstruoted and operated in suoh a manner that the present appropria- tions of water. and in addition thereto prospeotive uses of water for irrigation and other benefioial consumptive-use purposes, inoluding consumptive uses for doronstio. mining and industrial purposes. within the natural basin of the Colorado River in the State of ColoradO from whioh the wa- ter is exported. will not be impaired nor inol'eased in cost at the expense of the water users within the said natural basin;" and that (see Note b) .. "the faoilities and other means for the aocomplishment of said purpose shall be incorporated in, and made a part of. any project plans for the exportation of water from said natural basin in Colorado." ~' i; Note (a). The ColoradO River Compact defines the Upper Basin as those parts of the States of Arizona. Colorado. New llexioo, Utah and Wyoming wi thin and from which waters naturally drain into the Colorado !liver System above Lee Ferry. a nd also all parts of said States located without the drainage area of the Colorado River System which are now or shall hereafter be bene- fioially served by v.aters diverted from the system above Lee Ferry. Just as the ColoradO River Compact protected the Upper Basin in its slower progress of development, as compared with '"',