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<br />001493 <br /> <br />-6- <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />projeots, Thus, these oonolusions are inoonsistent with eaoh other, in <br />that the reported total oonstruotion oosts inolude estimates for projeots <br />whioh, if not oonstruoted, will require no finanoing, and the reported <br />total benefits and oolleotible revenues are misleading, sinoe they inolude <br />items that oannot be realized. The assumption of the Report that all the <br />so-oalled potential projeots, or their alternates, will be oonstruoted, <br />disregards the findings whioh ultimately must be made as to individual <br />projeot desirability, finanoial feasibility and eoonomio justifioation, <br />and henoe disregards the probability of authorization and appropriations <br />by the Congress, whioh must be based on subsequent detailed investigations <br />and reports on eaoh projeot possibility. It likewise entirely overlooks <br />the possibility of private development, <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />Upon investigation, some of the so-oalled potential projeots will <br />no doubt be disoarded as undesirable or infeasible, and those whioh are <br />finanoed and oonstruoted will have been designed upon a basis whioh, in- <br />stead of ultimate and largest possible oapaoities, will give oonsideration <br />to essential needs and to proper and more eoonomioal oapaoities. The <br />Report speaks of "full development in the United States," -- meaning a <br />stage of development whioh is fixed by available water supplies, and whioh <br />is something less than the ultimate stage for whioh estimates of oon- <br />struotion oosts, benefits and oolleotible revenues are presented, but the <br />Report fails to submit information or estimates as to the supplies of water <br />to beoame available for use with full development in the United States, <br />or as to the oonstruotion oosts to be enoountered, or the benefits and <br />oolleotible revenues to result from that stage of development. <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />5, Channel losses in the Upper Basin must be estimated and used <br />in oomputations of water supply and depletions, The Report oontains esti- <br />mates of so-oalled "present" uses or depletions, Inoluded in the reported <br />"present" totals are items representing the present uses by existing in- <br />basin and diversion enterprises. Colorado notes that the existing total <br />depletions summarized in the Report for the Upper Basin are not in agree- <br />ment with the depletions employed in Appendix I to estimate the water <br />supplies at Lee Ferry. <br /> <br />The Report also oontains allowanoes for future uses of water by <br />projects now under oonstruction or authorized, and for future inoreased <br />uses by reason of assumed expansions to ultimate limits under existing <br />projeots. Together, the estimated existing uses, plus the above menti oned <br />allowanoes, represent the so-oalled "present" status of utilization or <br />depletion of Colorado River water. Colorado notes that the water utili- <br />zation and depletion estimates of the Report are in terms which are not <br />consistent throughout both basins and in all states. Although the reported <br />depletion quantities are said to represent the resulting effects upon out- <br />flows from the Upper Basin at Lee Ferry, and fram the Lower Basin at the <br />International Boundary, that rule appears to have been applied only on the <br />Lower Gila River at and below the Phoenix vioinity in Arizona, All other <br />