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<br />OOH9! <br /> <br />~4~ <br /> <br />Upon the making of the Report as modified in accordanoe with the <br />objeotions, views and reoommendations noted above, Colorado believes that <br />the Bureau of Reolamation will have satisfied the requirements of Seotion <br />15 of the Boulder Canyon Projeot Aot. There will remain, however, for the <br />future, the task of investigatinr, and reporting on individual projeots for <br />oonstruotion, <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />There follows a detailed statement of the oomments, views and recam~ <br />mendations. of the State of Colorado. Referenoe is there made in Paragraph <br />12 to particular projeots in Colorado for oonsideration as near-future <br />development probabilities, <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />Detailed Views and Recommendations <br /> <br />1. Introduction. The Report contains muoh valuable engineering <br />data and faotual information oonoerning the resources, needs and problems <br />of the territory oovered by it. This information ooncerns the waters of <br />the Colorado River and its tributaries in the United States and includes <br />estimates of the existing and present status of water utilization in each <br />of the affected states, and of power production in the region therein <br />designated the Colorado River Basin. The Report also contains a list of <br />so-oalled potential projeots or units of projects considered possible of <br />future construction, together with preliminary estimates of their probable <br />construotion costs under both pre~war and current conditions, and with <br />estimates (expressed as totals, rather than by individual projeots) of <br />the aggregate benefits to the Nation, of the total revenues probably col- <br />leotible from combined water and power users, and of total depletions, <br />reported in part as sub-totals by states and in part unallocated among <br />the states, <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />Colorado appreciates the. value of this faotual information, and <br />recognizes that much labor, time and money has been devoted to the pre- <br />paration of the Report. However, after a careful consideration of its <br />contents, and its plans and proposals, the view reached by the State of <br />Colorado is that the Report should be modified, to eliminate its inoon~ <br />sistencies, improve its aocuraoyand completeness, and increase its <br />utility and value to the affected states and to the Congress. To suoh <br />ends, Colorado respectfully recommends that the Repcrt be modified before <br />being adopted by the Secretary of the Interior, and before being trans- <br />mitted to the President and to the Congress. These oamments shall be <br />deemed objeotions to the plans and proposals of the Department of Interior <br />and the Bureau of Reolamation unless and until the Report shall have been <br />modified in aooordance with these views and recommendations as hereinafter <br />outlined. <br /> <br />.,'~ <br /> <br />2. Inoonsistent treatment of areas outside of natural basin, The <br />so-oalled comprehensive Report purports to cover the Colorado River Basin. <br />Considered in the light of the proposal of the Report that affectedstatee. <br />