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<br />:'f, ' <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />-"<., <br /> <br />;' .1 <br /> <br />i:-' <br />, <br />( , <br />~.. <br /> <br />h" <br /> <br />\ <br />',.'j, <br /> <br />. <br />~... <br />'L' <br />{ <br /> <br />.' .. () ," <br />lhhl /;J~: <br /> <br />-6- <br /> <br />projeots. Thus, these oonolusions are inoonsistent with eaoh other, in <br />that the reported total construotion oosts inolude estimates for projeots <br />whioh, if not oonstruoted, will require no finanoing, and the reported <br />total benefits and oolleotible revenues are misleading, sinoe they inolude <br />items that oannot be realized. The assumption of the Report that all the <br />so-called potential projeots, or their alternates, will be constructed, <br />disregards the findings whioh ultimately must be made as to individual <br />projeot desirability, financial feasibility and eoonomio justification, <br />and henoe disregards the probability of authorization and appropriations <br />by the Congress, whioh must be based on subsequent detailed investigations <br />and reports on eaoh projeot possibility. It likewise entirely overl~oks <br />the possibility of private development. <br /> <br />Upon investigation, some of the so-called potential projeots will <br />no doubt be discarded as undesirable or infeasible, and those whieh are <br />finanoed and construoted will have been designed upon a basis whioh, in- <br />ste~d of ultimate and largest possible capacities, will give oonsideration <br />to essential needs and to proper and more eoonomioal capaoities. The <br />Report speaks of "full development in the United States," -- meaning a <br />stage of development which is fixed by available water supplies, and which <br />is something less than the ultimate stage for which estimates of oon- <br />struotion oosts, benefits and colleotible revenues are presented, but the <br />Report fails to submit information or estimates as to the supplies of water <br />to become available for use with full development in the United States, <br />or as to the oonstruotion oosts to be encountered, or the benefits and <br />colleotible revenues to result from that stage of development. <br /> <br />5. Channel losses in the Upper Basin must be estimated and used <br />in oomputations of water supply and depletions. The Report oontains esti- <br />mates of so~oalled ftpresent" uses or depletions. Inoluded in the reported <br />"present" totals are items representing the present uses by existing in- <br />basin and diversion enterprises. Colorado notes that the existing total <br />depletions summarized in the Report for the Upper Basin are not in agree- <br />ment with the depletions employed in Appendix I to estimate the water <br />supplies at Lee Ferry. <br /> <br />The Report also oontains allowanoes for future uses of water by <br />projeots now under oonstruotion or authorized, and for future increaseA <br />uses by reason of assumed expansions to ultimate limits under existing. <br />projeots. Together, the estimated existing uses, plus the above mentioned <br />allowanoes, represent the so-oalled "present" status of utilization or <br />depletion of Colorado River water. Colorado notes that the water utili- <br />&ation and depletion estimates of the Report are in terms whioh are not <br />oonsistent throughout both basins and in all states. Although the reported <br />depletion quantities are said to represent the resulting effeots upon out- <br />flows from the Upper Basin at Lee Ferry, and from the Lower Basin at the <br />International BOundary, that rule appears to have been applied only on the <br />Lower Gila River at and below the Phoenix vioinity in Arizona. All other <br />