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OOH.37 -5~ tions as mI1y now be recuired. to f\void interrupting the progressive devel- opment of the State. were IlUlde by the Bureau of Recl!Ull/.\tion when on JWle 6. 1944. all those project~ that appeared, from pending and completed in- vestigations. to be most needed, feasible alld economically justified. vlere recommended to Congre ss fcr postwar construction in Colorado. 13. The major intrastate problems that confront Colorado are those involving diversions from the Colorado River Basin for use in otr.er sec- tions of the State. These are created by the unequal distribution of land and water resources over Colorado, - 70 percent of the water resources of the state being in the Colorado River Basin, ""st of the Continental Divide. whereas that br.sin contains but 26 percent of the irrigated lands and but 5 percent of the arable lands awaiting reclamation by irrigation in Colo- rado. The policy of the State of Colo['ado. with rospeot to export diver- sions from the Colorado River Basin. is expressed in the Colorado \-later Conservancy District I.e.w (Sec. 13. Session Laws of 1937. as eJIlended), which provides that, (a) Any works or facilities planned or designed for the exporta- tion of water from the ne.tural basin of the Colorado River and its tribu- taries in Colorado shall be subject to the provisions of the Colorado Ri- ver Compact and the Boulder Canyon Projeot Act, as amended; (b) Any suoh works or facilities shall be designed, constructed and operated in such a manner that the present appropri ations of water, and in addition thereto prospective uses of water for irrigation and other beneficial consumptive-use purposes. including consumptive uses for domes- tic, mining and industrial purposes. within the nntural basin of theColo- rado River in the State of Colorado .from which the water is exported. will not be impaired nor increased in cost at the expense, of water users within: the said natural basin; and. I (c) The facilities and o,ther means for the accomplislm1ent of said purpose 'shall be' incorporated in, and made a part of, any project plans for the exportation of water from said natural basin in Colora'<io. <, Under the said policy of the State of COlorado the intrastate problems incident to exportations from the Colorado River Basin are be- ing solved as repidly as the detailed investigations and project reports are completed by the Bureau of Reclamation. Colorado points out that the recent reorganization of the Bureau of Reo lamation has delayed the completion of project investigations; that the boundaries of regions now established, though helpful to States such as Utah and California. inas- much as the Salt Lake and Boulder City offices have ch/lrge of the areas involved in both the points of diversion and the places of use of such exportations, are adverse to developments in Colo['ado, inasmuch as the State and its citizens are required to deal with the Salt Lake office, in charge of the Colorado River Basin. and With the Denver and Amarillo offices, in charge of river basins in ,Colorado east of the O~ri:tine:ntal Divide; and that the Report on the Colorado River Basin shows the esti- mated costs and potential depletions of exportation projects under in- vestigation by the Denver and Amarillo offices, but does not report the ,< ~""}: ^',',( n'.' " ?:~;' '."