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<br />GG2169 <br /> <br />Notes (continued) <br /> <br />justified: the project efficiency of Well ton-Mohawk <br />now approaches 90 percent, and the volume of return <br />flows has dropped to about 100,000 acre-feet--45 <br />percent of the volume in late 1972. <br /> <br />14. The report of Herbert Brownell to the President is <br />reprinted in Hearings on Salinity Control Measures on <br />the Colorado River (S. 2940 and related bills), before <br />the Subcommittee on Water and Power, Interior and <br />Insular Affairs Committee, u.S. Senate, 93rd Cong., <br />2nd sess., 1974. <br /> <br />15. One of the lighter moments of the Watergate era <br />occurred the day a distracted staff member in the White <br />House Correspondence Office routed Kissinger's memo to <br />the President on the Brownell report to OMB. We <br />prepared a rebuttal that was delivered by the new OMB <br />Director, Roy Ash. Kissinger was reportedly furious <br />that his memo had fallen into the hands of <br />"bean-counters and bureaucrats." <br /> <br />16. u.S. Department of State, "United States and Mexico <br />Reach Agreement on Colorado River Salinity Problem," <br />Department of State Bulletin, 69 (September 24, 1973), <br />pp. 388-396. <br /> <br />....... <br /> <br />17. These questions and others were echoed by members of <br />the Committee of Fourteen and other water user groups. <br />See especially Wesley Steiner's statement in the Senate <br />hearings on S. 2940, cited above. <br />