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<br />apportioned, and over and above the surplus awarded to Mexioo by the
<br />treaty between the United States and Mexico.
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<br />Aooordinf, to the Report the so-oalled "present" depletions or uses,
<br />in the two basins, may be summarized as follows, Upper Basin, existing
<br />2,200,000 aore feet, inorease allowanoe 556,000 aore feet, total "present"
<br />2,756,000 acre feet; Lower Basin, existing 4,918,000 aore feet, inorease
<br />allowanoe 3,583,000 aore feet, total "present" 8,501,000 aore feet. Under
<br />the apportio:~ent provisions of the Colorado River Compaot, and upon the
<br />findings of the Report, as to present depletions of streamflows or uses
<br />of' water, it is apparent that new and addi ti onal projeots may be oonstruoted
<br />in the future in the Upper Basin, with a~gregate uses or depletions up to
<br />4,744,000 aore feet annually, without thereby exoeeding the apportionment
<br />to the Upper Basin heretofore made by the Compaot, In the Lower Basin,
<br />however, no new or additional projeots oan be undertaken, until after
<br />Ootober I, 1963, exoept to the extent that possible future expansions
<br />under existine: projeots reoognized by the Report be oorrespondingly our-
<br />tailed or prohibited.
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<br />The State of Colorado sug~ests that the Report oontains plans and
<br />proposals whioh disregard this pe,tent faot, and reoolmnends that the Report
<br />be modified to oorreot this omission.
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<br />7. Comprehensive planning must oonform to orderly oonstruotion of
<br />desired and justified projeots. Conoerning reoorrunendation 3, paragraph 70,
<br />of the Regional Direotors' Report, the State of Cclorado oonours in and
<br />approves of that portion of the proposal involvillg inoreased appropriations
<br />by ~'ilngress, and expenditures by the Bureau of lleolamation and other
<br />agenoies of the Department of Interior, in order that more oomplete and
<br />aoourate data oonoerning the produotion, use and disposal of waters of the
<br />Colorado River System may beoome available to the Congress and the affeoted
<br />states. This is also neoessary to oontinue and expedite the oompletion
<br />of detailed investigations and individual projeot designs and reports, to
<br />the end that an orderly and progressive development of the Colorado River
<br />Basin, as defined by the Colorado River Compaot, may be assured. Suoh a
<br />development will provide supplemental water supplies as needed for munioi-
<br />pal, irrigation and industrial purposes and provide adequate and regulated
<br />supplies of water for lands that await reolamation by irrigation. Inci-
<br />dental to suoh reolamation development, will be the production of hydro-
<br />eleotric power, the improvement of reoreational advantages, and other op-
<br />portunities in the public interest.
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<br />However, Colorado oannot subsoribe to that proposal of the Report
<br />whioh olaims or infers that such appropriations and expenditures are neces-
<br />sary or desirable in order for the Department of Interior to formulate and
<br />oarry out a oomprehensive plan of development at this time or in the near
<br />future. Instead, the orderly and progressive development, above mentioned,
<br />should be oarried on by the oonstruotion from time to time of those indi.
<br />vidual projeots whioh, upon investigation, (1) are feasible, justified and
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