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001436 -4- , 19~. the Bureau of Reclamation transmitted to Congress en Inventory of Pro- jects considered suitable for construction in the postwar period in all the stream basins of the Seventeen Hestern states. Colorado suggests that the initial list of projeots to be designated in the Report be selected from said Inventory of Postwar Projects. and consist of all those considered suitable for postwar construction which can be cperated without thereby causing the beneficial oonsumptive use of waters of the Colorado River sys- tem from exceeding the quantities of water heretofore apportioned for such use to the Upper Basin and to the Lower Basin by Art. III (a) and (b) ~ the ColoradO River Compact. and without thereby causing the flow of the Colorado River at Lee Ferry to be depleted below an aggregate of 75.000.000 aore feet for any period of 'ten conseouti ve years. as provided by Art, III (d) of said compact. and without thereby causinz the beneficial consumptive use of water in anyone state of the Upper Division from exoeeding the quantity of water which that state contributed under virgin conditions to the waters of the ColoradO River system. provided that this shall not be construed as relieving any state from delivering its fair share at Lee Ferry to make gOOd the terms of the Colorado River Compact. " 11. Directing attention, next, to revisions of the Report to improve its value to the citizens and states of the ColoradO River Basin. ColoradO admits that the intrastate. interstate and international problems mention- ed therein must eventually be solved before the final stages of ultimate development are reached. but denies that such problems should be under- taken or can be solved all at once and promptly, as stated or :iJnplied by the Report. On the oontrary ColoradO asserts" and suggests the Report be revised to show,- that such problems are inter-related and the solutions of some are dependent on the previous solutions of others; that such prob- lems must be and are being solved one at a time. or in stages, and in an orderly manner as they are confr'onted; that solutions of recognized prob- lems. as vre11 Mothers 't? arise in the future, are dependent in part on data being and to be compiled by the Bureau of Rec lame.tion, in addition to that summarized in the Report; and that decisions on some of the prob- lems cannot be made until further development has been acoomplished by additional construction in the basin. " 12. In support of the foregoing general suggestions. attention is directed, first, to the intrastate problems that are said to await solu- tions by Colorado and its citizens, namely, of making selections from the potential projects or development possibilities listed in the Report. As the Report points out. additional detailed investigations and individual project feasibi lity reports will be needed to determine relative merits,. and hence are necessary before the requested final selections can be made. Oolorado asserts that, during the period of more than sixteen years since the Boulder Canyon Project Act was adopted. which authorized the making of such investigations and reports" the Bureau of Reclamation has completed them for less than 20 percent of the potential projects or knowrr development possibilities in Colorado; that, until such investiga- tions and reports are completed by the Bureau of Reclamation for the ra- Ill8ining more than 80 percent of the possible Colorado projects, the State and its citizens cannot fully solve their intrastate problems nor make the final selections requested in the Report; and that such selec- J