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0015J2 -15- has long been under investigation. Colorado urges that these investigations be expedited in order that the projeot may be oonsidered for oonstruotion. . (f) Silt Projeot, This projeot is located near Rifle, Colorado, and will store water diverted from Rifle Creek to make available supplemental water supplies for presently irrigated lands, The projeot has lQng been under investigation and Some preliminary reports have been issued thereon. A final report is in the prooess of preparation and is soheduled for early oonsider- ation by the offioe of the Regional Direotor, Region 4, Bureau of Reolamation. Colorado requests t hat the soheduled issuanoe of this report be followed and that the projeot may be oonsidered for oon- struotion, '.' q, (g) Collbran Projeot, This projeot is looated near Grand Junotion, Colorado. It has been under investigation for many years. Originally this proposed development was for the irrigation of lands, now under oultivation with inadequate water supplies, looated in the Plateau Valley, In reoent months a revised plan for this projeot to also provide munioipal water supplies for the City of Grand Junotion and vioinity, and to afford an inoidental produotion of power, has been under investigation by the Bureau of Reolamation. It has been found neoessary to expedite this investigation due to the population growth in Grand Junotion and the reoogni tion of the desirability of providing stook and domestio water supplies for the area in the vioinity of Grand Junotion. It is now indioated that the present souroe of munioipal water for Grand Junction will be adequate for a period of only about three years, and that water for this purpose must be obtained from other souroes within that time, Upon the basis of present data and infor- mation it seems highly probable that this projeot may be eoonomi- oally justified under the provisions of the 1939 r~olamation Aot. Beoause of this urgent need for domestio water supplies, as well as the desirability of providing supplemental supplies for irri- gation of lands in Plateau Valley, Colorado urges that the investi- gation on this projeot be oompleted and a report issued early this year in order that the projeot may be oonsidered for oonstruotion, " (h) Little Snake Development. The Little Snake River, a tributary of the Colorado River, orosses and reorosses the Colorado- Wyoming boundary line. For a number of years the Bureau of Recla- mation has oonducted investigations oonoerning the so-oalled ulti- mate development of the Little Snake River, inoluding exportations from and importations to the Little Snake River Basin, and inoluding the proposed oonstruotion in the near future of a relatively small projeot to serve lands in Colorado and Wyoming requiring supple- mental water supplies for dependable irrigation, and to irrigate some new lands in both states. Two Ilmall reservoir projeots, one