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-~ ----- oon51 39 that these costs ,,,'ill be higher during the construction period because of well-testing opl'rntiolls, and arc estimated at $233,000. Qperntion llnd maintenunce of the reaeationlll facilities would be assumed by an appropriate State or lu('nl entity as a non-Federal expense. Operation ('os(,,; of the ~Iishak Lakes;'; ational Wildlife Rnfuge would be assumed by the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. The estimat{'d total eonstruction costs are allocated tentatively us follows: Purpose: \\"ater salvagenn _ _ __ __. _Uh _ u_ n _ _ n _h_ _ _h_____ _uh Fish and wildlifc_ _ _ _ __ __hh h _uu_ un h _ _ n ___ _ _h __h Recreation__h~ _ __ U h _ _ __ _ _ _____h_ __h_ _ h_ ___ _ _ _ _ h___ Area rcdcyclopment.hn__ _ _ __ ____ _______ _ __ _h______ _ _ ___ Com $6.906,800 932, 400 20-'.000 425, 800 Total construction costu_______hhhhh_hh______.h_ 8,470,000 The total annual benefits of the proposed development, ba.sed on a 100-year period of anulysis, fire evaluated to be $2,452,800 and annual costs are estimated at $448,300. This results in a ratio of benefits to costs of 5.47 to 1. The economic evaluation and cost allocation used in this report are based on ('lIlTent Administration policies and pro- cedures as documcnted in S. Doc. 97 llnd H.R. 9032, 88th Congress. Development of the Closed Basin division would obviously provide substllIltinl nutional henefits. The Regional Director reports, however, that the individl1l\1 beneficiaries cunnot be reasonably identified. Delivcry of the 96,400 Ilcre-feet of sah-aged water annWulllly to the Rio Grunde would contribute substnntiullv to the nlle,'illtion of the criticlll water shortllges in the Rio Grand~c Basin which chronically prevail. It would enable the State of Colorudo to met~t its commitments for wuler delivery under the Rio Grande compnct to the States of New ~lexico nnd TexlIs. It is pstimated t,hat it "'"olIlff eliminnte Colomdo's present debit under the compact to New ~lexico and Texas (734,400 ficre-feet. as of Dec. 31, 1963) in some 35 years. A.':i recommended by the Rcgiollul Director in his report, the State of Colorado should be required to ('ommit itself t.o the prohibition in the Rio Grnnde Basin ubove the Colorado-New ~lexico State line of additional (~onsumptive uses of wllter for ugricultural purposes, ,,,-hich ure determinetl by Colorudo to be in competition with the water slllYnge mensures propo~ed herein, until Colorado's uccrued debit under the Rio Grnnde compuct shall have been reduced to 100,000 acre-feet or less. The proposed water salvage program would nlso llSsbt the Federal Go,.ernment in its wntl'r ddin'ries to .\[exico under the 1906 treaty, nil obligation that hn..." been met, to some dcg-ree at least, at the expense of irrigators :dong the Rio Gnlnde, Jlnrticularly those using water from the Elephant Butte Re~ern)ir of our Rio Grande project in Xew .\[exico lmd Texn5, from which wllter releases art' mude to mpct our ()bli~f\.tions lIndt'r the treaty. Both the Statl's of Colorndo and Xew ~Iexico h:we strongly en- dorsed the position that the w:tter s-lllvuge features should be con- structed, operated. and mnintainl'd at Federlll ('x pense. and they cite the 1906 Tn'nty with ~It'xico llnd the Rio Gmnde compact of 1929 as nuthority for this position.