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001H6 -14- under part one, "Betv.een the Upper and Lower Basins," are entitled, The Colorrdo River Compact, the Boulder Canyon Project Act, Contracts for Power and Hater, and Boulder Canyon projeot Adjust;1ent Aot. Hith respect to Chapter III, "Dividing the Hater," Colorado suggests revisions, amend- ments, and rearrangements of the information, as follows. " (I) Early in said chapter, under the heading, "Between the Up- per and Lower Basins," include the full text of the Colorado River Com- pact, - a document involving but 4 printed pages which is of suoh imp or- tanoe as to justify its reproduction in full. Its inclusion will not add to the length of the Report, for thereby many of the explanatory state- ments as to provisions of the Compaot oan be deleted, some of which state- ments may not be entirely accurate, or at least must be revised to make them accurate. Colorado suggests that introductory COllm1Elllts, concerning the fears, hopes and contentions, that are said to have motivated the negotiation of the Compact, should be confined to statements of physical conditions and relations affecting development needs and programs, and should so fur as possible avoid interpretations of decisions (such as the decree entered in 1922 in the case of Hyoming v. Colorado respecting the Laramie River, which Colorado says is wrongly interpreted in the Report, as evidenced by subsequent interpretations thereof by the Court itself); and should eliminate legal opinions such as those concerning "bhe law respecting rights to the use of waters of interstate streams," and contentions such as that "the federal government was the agency which logically should effect the regulation 0 f river develo..,merrt" (since the lower part of the Colorado River WaS or had been navigable). In the event the Bureau of Reclamation elects to COJ1l)'lIent on legal questions as the same may have been interpreted in 1922, the Report should inclUde a review of the case of Kansas v. Colorado respecting the ArkansaS River, decided in 1907 (and recently reaffirmed), which stream also was or had been navigable in its lower reaches; and which decision def,initely cover- ed both questions of interstate and federal-state )'elations. " , (2) In part (2) entitled, "Congressional Acts," inclUde brief digests of the Boulder Canyon Project Act, and the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act, together with such other Acts of Congress as may be re- lated thereto, and such agreements thereunder between the United States and interested organizations as related to the authorization and construc- tion of Boulder Dam; and also a summary of the contracts for power which v.ere enter.ed into and are now in effect. . (3) In part (3) of the Chapter on "Dividing the Hater ," ent:!,t- led, "Between the states of the Lower Division," summarize all the con.. trncts entered into between the United states and the states of the Lower Division and interests therein, having to do with the delivery or use of waters of the Colorado River system. Colorado says that numerous contracts have been made, only a few of which are mentioned in the Re- port, and that such information (inoluding the recently negotiated con- tract with Arizona" whioh is not mentioned in the Report) should be pre- sented, together with suggestions by the BureaU of Reelamation as to what step's might be taken to "clarify interstate relations," as request- ed in the Report.