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<br />apportioned, and over and above the surplus awarded to Mexio 0 by the
<br />treaty between the United States and Mexioo.
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<br />Aooording to the Report the so-oalled '"present" depletions or uses,
<br />in the two basins, may be summarized as follows, Upper Basin, existing
<br />2,200,000 aore f'eet, inorease allowanoe 556,000 aore f'eet, total "present"
<br />2,756,000 aore f'eet; Lower Basin, existing 4,918,000 aore f'eet, inorease
<br />allowanoe 3,583,000 aore feet, total "present" 8,501,000 aore feet. Under
<br />the apportionment provisions of' the Colorado River Compaot, and upon the
<br />findings of the Report, as to present depletions of strearnf'lows or uses
<br />of water, it is apparent that new and additional projeots may be oonstruoted
<br />in the future in the Upper Basin, with a~gregate uses or depletions up to
<br />4,744,000 aore feet annually, without thereby exoeedinf the apportionment
<br />to the Upper Basin heretofore made by the Compaot. In the Lower Basin,
<br />however, no new or additional projeots oan be undertaken, until after
<br />Ootober 1, 1963, exoept to the extent that possible future expansions
<br />under existin~ projeots reoognized by the Report be oorrespondin~ly our-
<br />tailed or prohibited.
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<br />The State of Colorado sug~ests that the Report oontains plans and
<br />proposals whioh disregard this patent faot, and reoommends that the Report
<br />be modified to oorreot this omission,
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<br />7. Comprehensive planning must oonf'orm to orderly oonstruotion :.~
<br />desired and justified projeots. Conoerning reoommendation 3, paragraph 70,
<br />of the Regional Direotors t Report, the State of Colorado oonOurs in and
<br />approves of that portion of the proposal involving inoreased appropriations
<br />by Congress, and expenditures by the Bureau of' Reolamation and other
<br />agenoies of the Department of Interior, in order that more oomplete and
<br />aoourate data oonoerning the produotion, use and disposal of waters of the
<br />Colorado River System may beoome available to the Congress and the affeoted
<br />stetes. This is also neoessary to oontinue and expedite the oompletion
<br />of detailed investigations and individual projeot designs and reports, to
<br />the end that an orderly and progressive development of the Colorado River
<br />Basin, as defined by the Colorado River Compaot, may be assured. Suoh a
<br />development will proyide supplemental water supplies as needed for munici-
<br />pal, irrigation and industrial purposes and provide adequate and regulate~
<br />supplies of water for lands that await reolamation by irrigation. Inoi..
<br />dental to suoh reolamation development, will be the produotion of hydro-
<br />eleotrio poWer, the improvement of reoreational advantages, and other op..
<br />portunities in the publio interest, .
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<br />However, Colorado oannot subsoribe to that proposal of the Report
<br />whioh olaims or infers that suoh appropriations and expenditures are neoes-
<br />sary or desirable in order for the Department of Interior to formulate and
<br />oarry out a oomprehensive plan of development at this time or in the near
<br />future. Instead, the orderly and progressive development, above mentioned,
<br />should be oarried on by the oonstruotion f'rom time to time of those indi-
<br />vidual projeots whioh, upon investigation, (1) are feaSible, justified and
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