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OOH3~ -2- and Fower Projects" of the Hearin~s, pursuant to Senate Resolution 102, before the Sub-Committee on Roads and Reclame.tion of the Semte Com- mittee on Fostwar Dconomic Policy and Planning. . 4. The following comments e.nd suggestions, relative to the Report on the Colorado River Basin, constitute a Statement by and in behalf of the State of Colorado, and are made by the Colorado Hater Conserve.tion Board as authorized by Chapter 265, Session Laws of 19?fl. Inasmuch as pages 11 to 15 of the Report, being the section entitled, "Sumnary and Recommendations," are blank in the copies submitted to Colorado, but are to be filled in by the Bureau of Reclamation in the revised fine.l draft transmitted to Congress, this Statement shall be considered preliminary and incomplete, and subject to such amendment as Colorado may deem neces- sary or advisable if and when the recommendations of the Report are made knOVIn to the State. The intention of the Statement is to improve the value of the Report to Congress and to the States of the Colore.do River Basin. 5. The Report oontains a list of potential projects for irrigation, hydro-eleotric power, and other purposes. which might be construoted in the Colorado River Basin and the States thereof, the ag,;regate depletions of which, together with allowances for present depletions, e.re said to exceed the e.vailable water supplies. \lith respect to said list of poten- tie.l projects, the Bureau of Reclamation says, "Here are possible pro- jects - here are opportunities for the future. The people must decide what she.ll be d'one." However, the Buree.u points out that ...nile the po- tential projects outline the improvement opportunities and development possibilities of the future, the Report does not present a final plan, for the reason that "many intrastate, interstate and international pr'ob- lems must be solved before e. final pe.ttern of development can be evolved." Nore specifically, with respect to decisions to bE> made and problems to' be solved by the oitizens, States and Nations. the Bureau se.ys that in ee.ch State seleotions must be made fran the list of poterrbial projeots; the.t interstate relations must be defined in the Upper Basin and clari- fied in the Lower Basin; and that the limits of ultimate development in the United States will be determined in part by any allocation of water to Hexioo by treaty between the two Nations. . 6. The potential projeots deso['ibed and summarized in the Report are listed without regard for the order in which they are or will be needed and are likely to be oonstruoted, and without segregation aocord- ing to x-elative feasibility. Hith respeot to "investigations end public reports of the feasibility of projects," as authorized by the Boulder Canyon Project Aot, the Bureau of Recle.mation says that, although re- ports on some individual p['ojects have been pUblished, additional de- tailed investigations will be needed to determine the relative merits of (listed and alternative) projects, and must be made before many of the potential projects listed in the 'Report can be authorized and con- struction undertaken. '. '" ~ .'( 7. ~lhile the Report contains estimates of project and total c on- struction costs it fails to present information concerning the be.sin-