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<br />001499 <br /> <br />~12- <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />projeots, the streamflow depletions of whioh will assuredly fall within <br />ultimate allooations of Colorado River water whioh may be made to the <br />individual states. Ii Elsewhere the Report speaks of affeoted states de- <br />ciding from among "known potentialities" whioh projeots they desire to <br />have the Bureau of Reolamation oonsider for oonstruotion. At another <br />plaoe the Report says that detailed information is available for a sub- <br />stantial number of potential developments and only data of a reoonnaissanoe <br />nature for others, but from all information available it should be possible, <br />prior to a final settlement of water rights (by oompact if possible, or <br />litigation if necessary), to seleot a group of projeots whioh are urgently <br />needed, or whioh will be key units of the oomprehensive plan for oon- <br />struotion as the next stage of development. Colorado, as herein previously <br />mentioned, says the so-oalled potential projeots listed in the Report <br />might, more appropriately, be termed an inventory of development possi- <br />bilities that largely await detailed investigation and individual projeot <br />reports. As an inventory of development possibilities in Colorado, the <br />list is inoomplete. It fails to inolude development possibilities upon <br />whioh investigations have been initiated by the Bureau of Reolamation <br />sinoe the list was oompiled, and others whioh local interests and state <br />offioials and agenoies have sinoe brought to the attention of the Bureau <br />of Reolamation. Considered as a list of known potentialities, Colorado <br />asserts that the data oontained in the Report, or elsewhere available <br />through individual projeot reports, oonoerning the so-oalled potential <br />projects in the State are wholly inadequate for determining at this time <br />the desirability, or eoonomio feasibility, or probability of authorization <br />and oonstruotion of individual projeots. Muoh of the data is largely of <br />a reoonnaissanoe nature. <br /> <br />~, <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />The ooncept that "the eoonomio feasibility of the group of projeots <br />inoluded in the next stage of development would be oomprehended in the <br />finding of feasibility for the over-all ultimate development of the basin," <br />is subjeot to ohallenge from the data appearing in the Report, wherein <br />annual oosts to the Nation, if based on oonstruotion oosts estimated in <br />the Commissioner's letter, may be found to exoeed the annual benefits to <br />the Nation, whioh in turn are subjeot to question sinoe they are based on <br />estimated gross values of orop and power produotion. Inasmuoh as the <br />Report plans that "when the next stage of development has been deoided <br />upon, it may be presented to the Congress for authorization of construotion," <br />it would seem to be equally as feasible, and perhaps would involve less <br />delay, to plan to submit to the Congress eaoh individual projeot report <br />as it is oompleted, (where suoh submission to Congress is required under <br />existing law), and thereby provide for an orderly and progressive develop- <br />ment in aooordance with both looal needs and publio interest. In this <br />oonneotion, note the views and reoommendations of the State of Colorado <br />set forth in the foregoing paragraph 7. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />12. Colorado projeots, It is respeotfully suggested by Colorado <br />that the.list of projeots submitted by the Report does not provide a basis <br />for an inteiUgent seleotion by the State of projeots for oonstruction. <br />