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<br />, ,c.9 <br />.-...l <br />'~ <br /> <br />4. NATURE OF COI.01'JUlO RIVER BASIN REPORT. <br /> <br />available for development in the United States will be determined, to an <br />extent, by an:y allocation of water to Mexico (as by the proposed Treaty). <br /> <br />Note (5): The current revision of the tentative draft mani- <br />festly does not contemplat.e the solution of all intrastat.e, interstate <br />and international questions prior to issuance of the Report in final form. <br />Neither should t.he selection of individual projects within a State, nor <br />the clarification of relations between States in the Lower Basin, nor the <br />completion of allocations bet.ween States in the Upper Basin, nor the ne- <br />gotiation and ratification of a Treaty between the two Nations, be con- <br />sidered problems requiring solution before the Report in final form is <br />transmitted to Congress. <br /> <br />The Bureau of Reclamation terms the Report the first presen- <br />tation of "all known possibilities" 'for developing water resources in the <br />entire Colorado River Basin. At the same t1me the Bureau admits that some <br />!mown (and named) projects in the upper Basin were excluded from the list <br />of potential projects and omitted from the summariesj and admits that, <br />while reports on some individual projects have previously been published, <br />detailed investigations of many listed and alternat.ive project.s are needed <br />and will be undertaken in t.he fut.ure. <br /> <br />In preparing the Report, and in select.ing the list. of po- <br />t.ent.ial project.s included t.herein, t.he Bureau of Reclamat.ion says: <br />"All beneficial uses and control of wat.er, including <br />the irrigat.ion of land, the production of low-cost. <br />(Not.e 6) hydro-elect.ric power, the restoration of <br />ground wat.er levels, the furnishing of domest.ic and <br />municipal wat.er supplies, t.he control of floods and <br />silt, the preservation of fish and wild-life, and <br />the enhancement of recreational areas, were taken <br />into account in an effort to present potential pro- <br />jects most likely to yield the greatest good to the <br />greatest number of people." <br /> <br />Note (6): The term "low-cost" is not defined in the Report, <br />either in figures, or in relation to production costs by methods other <br />than water-power, or to costs in other regions. For example, in the <br />Missouri River Basin Report the stat.ement appears, "that the cost per <br />kilowatt-hour should not. exceed 2.5 mills delivered to major project <br />pumping plants." <br /> <br />5. CONSTRUCTION COSTS. <br /> <br />Construction of all the powe~, irrigation and other projects <br />listed in t.he Colorado River Basin Report, would cost $2,439,000,000. Ex- <br />clusive of power transmission grids, the total construction costs would be <br /> <br />(6) <br />