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001435 -3- ~ wide or regional benefits expected to ultimately result from the improve- ments and developments outlined by such projects, and fails to indicate how much of the total investment may be expected to be returned or repaid by v;ater and power users and other local benefioiaries, Nevertheless the Bureau of Reclamation says, that the Colorado River Basin oan be develop- ed into one of the most prosperous seotions of the oountry, and that maximum development of the Colorado River is necessary, not only for the econOIllic stabilization and growth of the Colorado River Basin, but also for the benefit of the entire Nation, upcn the theory that true National prosperity can be aohieved only by the prosperity of all component parts of the integrated eoonomic system. " , 8. To improve the value of the Report to Congress. and in behalf of the entire Colorado River Basin and its development in competition with other natural drainage basins and stream systems, Colorado suggests that the Report be revised to include information concerning the basin- wide 0[' regional benefits to result from the full utilization of water, and to show the relations between total construction costs and ultimate benefits, and how much of the investment in the Colorado River Basin may be expected to be repaid in time by v;ater and power users and other local benefic iaries. Colorado submits that, in the ab sene e of such showings, the Report on'the Colorado River Basin will compare unfavorably with the previously trancmitted Report on the J1issouri River Basin and perhaps with others in preparation by the Bureau of Reclamation. Assuming the informa- tion conoerning benefit s and returns is included in the Report, Colorado suggests t hat a recomnendation appear therein to the effect that the general improvement program and ultimate development plan broadly out- lined by the potential projects listed in the Report be approved by Con- gress subject to such modifications and changes therein as may be indi- cated, from time to time, by the additional data and information acquired as additional detailed investigations are completed on potential and alternative projects, and as general investigations are oontinued in the basin; and subjeot to such modifications and chan@6s therein as may be dictated by the solutions of intrastate and interstate problems by the citizens and States of the Colorado River Basin, and of international problems by the two Nations. J ~ ',~,t : ;,~:-'., , ~'? 9. To further improve the value of the Report to Congress, and prevent it from halting, instead of promoting, the 'levelopment of the Colorado River Basin, Colorado suggests the designation therein of an initial list of projects, c onsti tuting the next or postwar or near-future stage of construction, together with a recommendation to Congress that said initial list of projects be adopted, and that the Bureau of Recla- mation be authorized to spend the sum of money to be specified in the Report (consistent with the sum speoified in the HisS01ll'i River Basin Report) on the comnencemerrl; of construction of said initial list of pro- jects, and on the continuation of additional detailed project investiga- tions and further general investigaticns incident to the improvement and development of the Colorado River Basin. 10. ~1ith respect to the initial list of projects to be selected and designated in the Report, it will be recalled tnat heretofore, on June 6,