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<br />'O~~!."" <br />llJt;il, <br /> <br />-3- <br /> <br />orderly development will result from the oonstruotion from time to time <br />of individual projeots whioh upon full and oomplete investigation prove <br />to be feasible, justified and needed and whioh will be desired by looal <br />benefioiaries after their repayment obligations are known. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />7. The Report is unsound in reoommending that all seven of the <br />states of the Colorado River Basin jointly agree upon a determination of <br />their respeotive rights to deplete the flow of the Colorado River before <br />major development may prooeed. The .Colorado River Compaot apportions <br />water between the Upper Basin and the Lower Basin. Neither basin is oon- <br />oerned with the apportionment between states of the share allooated to <br />the other basin and neither basin should be restrioted or delayed in its <br />development by the failure of the other basin states to divide the water <br />apportioned to that basin by the Colorado River Compaot. Colorado reoog- <br />nizes the desirability of an allooation of water to the individual states <br />oomprising the Upper Basin. While it is true that oompaot negotiations <br />are in progress among the states of the Upper Basin and that the oon- <br />struotion of additional major projeots should await allooation of water <br />to the states, there are projeots whioh will assuredly use water falling <br />well within the equitable share of the state where looated and whioh <br />should not be made to await any final allooation of water. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />8. The Report is unsound in implying that eaoh individual state <br />should allooate water to speoifio projects within suoh state. Colorado <br />adheres to the appropriation dootrine of water law and thereunder water <br />users are entitled to water in aooordanoe with the priority of their <br />individual appropriations. Any ohange in suoh system in Colorado will <br />require a oonstitutional amendment. <br /> <br />r' <br /> <br />9. The Report is unsound in that it reoommends that the states <br />approve projeots for the so-oalled initial stage of development without <br />there being available at the same time adequate data and infonnation for <br />the determination of the desirability, eoonomio feasibility or probability <br />of authorization and oonstruotion of individual projeots. Only in <br />instanoes where detailed investigations are oompleted and individual <br />projeot reports are available oan there be a worthwhile seleotion of any <br />projeots. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />~(' <br /> <br />10. The Report is unsound in that it contemplates a general group <br />authorization of projeats for oonstruction rather than a speoifio author- <br />ization of individual projeots. <br /> <br />Colorado believes that each and all of the foregoing views are <br />fundamental and important and reoommends that the Report be modified to <br />oonform therewith. The Report is a good inventory'of development potenti- <br />alities, as known at the present time, and it oontains muoh valuable <br />engineering data and faotual information. It must be reoognized that as <br />a oomplete list of all o.onstruction potentialities or possibUi ties of <br />using Colorado River water, the Report is far from oomplete, <br />