WSPC03208

• File Number: 8210.720
• Description: Colorado River Basin - Organizations-Entities - US Bureau of Reclamation
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 12/1/1946
• Author: CWCB
• Title: Comments-Views-Recommendations - State of Colorado Concerning Project Report Number 34-8-2 of BOR dated March 1946 - Comprehensive Report on Development of Colorado River Basin-Etc
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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COMMENTS, VIEWS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
OF THE STATE OF COLORADO
CONCERNING THE PLANS AND PROPOSALS OF
PROJECT PLANNING REPORT NO. 34-8--2
OF THE BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
ON THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN

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DECEMBER, 1946

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TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORj

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Pursuant to the Aot or Deoember 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887), the State
of Colorado .herewith submits its o.~m9nts, views uud reoommendations oon-
oerning the plans e.nd proposals or Projevt Planning Report No. 34-8-2,
of the Bureau or Reolam~tion, Department of Interior, dated Maroh, 1946,
and entitleds "A Comprehensive Report on the Development of the Water
Resouroes of the Colorado River Basin ror Irrigation, Power Produotion,
and other Benerioial Uses in Arizona, Calirornia, Colorado, Nevada, New
Mexioo, Utah, and Wyoming." In submitting these views and reoOllJll\endations,
oonsideration has been given to the Regional Direotors' report, oonolusions,
reeommendations and substantiating materials, data, statement and appendi-
oes, together with the Letter of Transmittal dated June 6, 1946 from the
Commissioner or the Bureau or Reolamation to the Seoretary or the Interior.

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Summary or Canments, Views and Reonmmendations

Colorado cbjeots to the Report in its present form and to the oon-
olusicns a110. recommendativns therein con'i;e,ined and reocrnmends that it not
be transn>itted to the Congress unless and until the requisite corrections,
modirioations and additions are made in aooordanoe with these views and
reoommendations. As a sUllJll\ary of the detailed views and reommnendations
hereinafter oontained, Colorado submitsl

1. The Report improperly treats the UPl'€r Bltsin difrerently rrom
the Lower Basin in the following partioulars~

(a) It includes areas located outside the natural basin
or the river but within the states of the Lower Basin whioh are
now or shall hereafter be benerioially served by water diverted
from the Colorado River System and at the same time exoludes
similar areas in states or the Upper Basin;

(b) It ignores the allooations or water made by the Colo-
rado River Compaot, the provisions or the Boulder Canyon Projeet
Aot and the California Selr~Limitatlon Aot, and contemplates