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<br />OOgCJ5 <br /> <br />-8- <br /> <br />apportioned, and over and above the surplus awarded to Mexio 0 by the <br />treaty between the United States and Mexioo. <br /> <br />"' <br /> <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. <br /> <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, <br /> <br />~. .!', <br />..j: . <br />i <br />, <br />\ <br />I <br />1 <br />, <br /> <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, . <br /> <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 <br /> <br />~. <br />