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liZ; ;;8 j; -12- , projeots, the streamflow depletions of whioh will assuredly fall within ultimate allooations of Colorado River water whioh may be made to the individual states." Elsewhere the Report speaks of affeoted states de- oiding from a.mong "known potentialities" whioh projeots they desire to have the Bureau of Reolamation oonsider for oonstruotion. At anot~r place the Repo~t says that detailed information is available for a sub- stantial number of potential developments and only data of a reoonnaissanoe nature for others, but from all information available it should be possible, prior to a final settlement of water rights (by oompaot if possible, or litigation if neoessary), to seleot a group of projects whioh are urgently needed, or whioh will be key units of the oomprehensive plan for oon- struotion as the next stage of development. Colorado, as herein previously mentioned, says the so-oalled potential projeots listed in the Report might, more appropriately, be termed an inventory of development possi- bilities that largely await detailed investigation and individual projeot reports. As an inventory of development possibilities in Colorado, the list is inoomplete. It fails to inolude development possibilities upon whioh investigations have been initiated by the Bureau of Reolamation sinoe the list was oompiled, and others whioh local interests and state offioials and agenoies have sinoe brought to the attention of the Bureau of Reolamation. Considered as a list of known potentialities, Colorado asserts that the data oontained in the Report, or elsewhere available through individual projeot reports, oQnoerning the so-oalled potential projeots in the State are wholly inadequate for determining at this time the desirability, or eoonomio feasibility, or probability of authorization and oonstruotion of individual projeots. Muoh of the data is largely of a reoonnaissanoe nature. . ~ The oOllcept that "the eoonomio feasibility of the group of projeots included in the next stage of development would be oomprehended in the finding of feasibility for the over-all ultimate development of the basin," is subjeot to ohallenge from the data appearing in the Report, wherein annual costs to the Nation, if based on oonstruction oosts estimated in the Connnissioner's letter, may be found to exceed the annual benefits to the Nation, which in turn are subjeot to question sinoe they are based on estimated gross values of orop and power produotion. Inasmuoh as the Report plans that "when the next stage of development has been deoided upon, it may be presented to the Congress for authorization of o onstruotion, " it would seem to be equally as feasible, and ~rhaps would involve lesa delay, to plan to submi t to the Congress each individual projeot report as it is oompleted, (where suoh submission to Congress is required under existing law), and thereby provide for an orderly and progressive develop- ment in aooordanoe with both looal needs and publio interest. In this oonneot1on, note the views and reoammendati ons of the State of Colorado set forth in the foregoing paragraph 7. , 12. Colorado projeots. It is respeotfully suggested by Colorado that the list of projeots submitted by the Report does not provide a basis for an intelligent seleotion by the State of projeots for oonstruotion.