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3. DJBCUSSION OF BLANK "SUMMARY AND Bl!XJOMMJ!lllDi\TION" SECTION. Irrigation, 40 annual payments of $7,450,000 Power, 50 annual payments of 8,462,000* Municipal, 40 annual payments of 500,000 Total * In addition to interest charges power. $298,000,000 423,100,000 20,000,000 741,100,000 on costs allocated to (c) The Missouri River Basin Report also contains a "Board of Review Report to the Commissioner." No similar section appears in the Colorado River Basin Report, although some of its important features may be included in the "Summary and Recommendations" to be written into the final edition, presumably without the opportunity for comments by the States of the Colorado River Basin. Note (2): In determining the justification for the Missouri River Basin reclamation development and the sub-divisional features thereof, the Report recognized and the Board confirmed the principle that a project plan or brosd development is justified if the total value of all benefits to be derived from it exceeds the total cost, whether or not all costs can be recovered from the direct beneficiaries; and the Board con- curred in the finding of the Report that the benefits of the basin-wide program exceed estimated costs in the ratio of 2.57:1. In the Colorado River Basin Report there is no showing of relations between basin-wide benefits and costs, and the "potential development" (as distinguished from "proposed projects") is attempted to be justified on the grounds that "the Colorado River Basin can be developed into one of the most prosperous sections of the country"; that "maximum development of the Colorado River is necessary, not only for the economic stabilization and growth of the Colorado River Basin, but also for the benefit of the entire nation"; and that, "true National prosperity can be achieved only by the prosperity of all component parts of the integrated economic system," Note (3): The Missouri River Basin Board of Review Report also contains "a list of projects," as the, "initial stage of an orderly program to effectuate a plan of development presented in the Report." It is assumed that the Colorado River Basin Report will include a similar "initial list of projects", and that said list will consist of those indi- vidual projects located in the Colorado River Basin which heretofore, on June 6, 1944, were submitted by the Bureau of Reclamation to Congress (Sub-Committee on Roads and Reclamation of Senate Committee on Post war Economic Planning and Policy) as an "Inventory of Irrigation and Multiple- Purpose Projects for Construction in the Post War Period," in the 17 Western States, at a construction cost estimated (at 1940 price levels) of $2,952,393,000. Note (4): The Board of Review Report on the Missouri River Basin also contains "Recommendations", among which the following, it is assU1lled, will be included in the final edition of the Colorado River Basin 8(:81 (4)