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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Upon the making of the Report as modified in accordance with the
objeotions, views and reoommendations noted above, Colorado believes that
the Bureau of Recl~~ation will have satisfied the requirements of Section
15 of the Bc.ulcer Canyon Projeot Aot. There will remain, however, for the
future, the task of investigatin~ and reporting on individual projeots for
ocnstruotion,

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There follows a detailed statement of the oamrnents, views and recom-
mendations of the State of Colorado. Reference is there made in Paragraph
12 to partioular projects in Colorado for consideration as near-future
deTeloplllent probabilities.

Detailed Views and Recommendations

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1. Introduotion, The Report contains muoh valuable engineering
data and fac'tual information c ollcerning the res ources, needs and problems
of the territory covered by it. This information concerns the waters of
the Colorado River and its tributaries in the United States and includes
estimates of the existing and present status of water utilization in each
of the affeoted states, and of power production in the region therein
designated the Colorado River Basin, The Report also oontain. a list of
so-oalled potential projects or units of projeots oonsidered possible of
future construotion, together with preliminary estimates of their probable
oonstruction costs under both pre-war and curraI~ c0nditions, and with
estimates (expressed as totals, rather than by individual projects) of
the aggregate benefits to the Nati on, of the total revenues probably col-
leotible from oombined water and power users, and of total depletions,
reported in part as sub-totals by states and in part unallocated among
the states.

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Colorad~ appreciates the value of this factual information, and
reoognizes tho.t muoh labor, time and money has been devoted to the pre-
parati~n of the Report. However, after a careful consideration of it.
oontents, and its plans and proposals, the view reaohed by the State of
Colorado is that the Report should be modified, to eliminate its inoon-
sistencies, improve its aocuracy and completeness, and increase its
utility and value to the affected states and to the Congress. To such
ends, Colorado respectfully reoammends that the Report be modified before
being adopted by the Secretary of the Interior, and before being trans-
mitted to the President and to the Congress, These comments shall be
deemed objections to the plans and proposals of the Department of Interior
and the Bureau of Reclamation unless and until the Report shall have been
modified in accordanoe with these views and reoammendations as hereinafter
outlined.

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2. Inoonsistent treatment of areas outside of natural basin. The
so-called oomprehensi ve Report purports too over the Colorado River Basin.
Considered in the light of the proposal of the Report that affeGtea states.