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<br />. <br />BLACK CANYON lNFORMATION PAPI:R <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Oct. 2000 <br /> <br />Attal:hment B <br />Information from the Legislative Hearings for CRSP <br /> <br />. , ,- <br /> <br />The following quotes are from a six volume set entitled Lelrislative Actions Colorado River <br />," Storage Proiect. U,S, G1Jvernment Printing Office <br /> <br />Vol. IV, House Hearings 83d Congress, 2d Session, p, 17: The CRSP was a comprehensive <br />project to enable the development of water u:;e in the Compact's Upper Basin by providing <br />sufficient storage facilities to guarantee the supply necessary for delivery to the Lower Basin <br />under Compact requirements, The power facilities were designed to not only repay the cost of <br />their construction, but also pay most of the cost ofthe panicipating projects that w!ls'beyond the <br />ability of the irrigation districts to pay, Once the power facilities were paid ou>t..;theh the money <br />was to be spent paying off the panicipating projects, ~~i::;' , <br />t ,.... (" ~>., <br /> <br />Vol. IV, p, 50, statement of Regional Director, Bureau of Reclamation, E, :O"Laf:soi1:,' ' <br />There are serious problems confronting the States of the upper basin iT} any planforuSing their <br />share of Colorado River water which can be resolved only through the comprehensive basinWide <br />plan nowproposed ' <br /> <br />Paramount among them is the compact requirement that the upper basin States deliver to the <br />lower basin not less than 75 million acre feet over any period of 10 successive years" <br /> <br />, " <br />The uneven flow of the river with its erratic periods of drought and flood, makes the fulfillment <br />of the commitment to the lower basin and suiJstantiClI development in the upper basin impossible <br />without river regulation. Such regulation would require additional storage facilities on a scale <br />that dwarfs past developments in the upper basin. <br /> <br />In selecting storage sites for river regulation in the plan offull development, we have striven to <br />obtain at the lowest cost the largest yield of water, the maximum power output of the river, and <br />the minimum evaporation from the reservoirs, <br /> <br />'.. 42 percent of the upper basin's apportioned water cannot be put to use unless excess waters <br />are impounded during periods of prolonged high flows in a system of long-time holdover <br />reservoirs for release during prolonged periods oj low flows, <br /> <br />Testimony ofMr, Larson, p, 144, citing a statement from a previous Congressional repon which <br />concluded: Increased diversions of water for use by agriculture and industry on the western <br />slope and for transmountain diversions will <upend upon the provision of sufficient storage <br />capacity in the reservoirs jor conservation offlood flows and some cyclic regulation in order <br />that Colorado may make full use of the wate, allocated to it by the compact, Cyclic regulation <br />of Colorado River over periods longer than 20 years will also be necessary, <br /> <br />B-1 <br /> <br />002707' <br />