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<br />thru <br />aots is followed. no loss to the Government need result Ii such a <br /> <br />polioy.:U:x1rI'H......"iy Aid and not paternalism was the oril:;ine.l intent <br /> <br />and a depe.rture has and rill ultimately defeat tho purpose of the acts. <br /> <br />'these aots require the federal a&encies to comply wf,th the local 18.ws <br /> <br />of the states in which enterprises are undertaken. It would seem rea- <br /> <br />sonable to presume that i~t~ of~icials would not proceed with <br /> <br />the expenditures of publio fllilds upon projects extending into two or <br /> <br />more states,without respecting the sovereign rights of all the states <br /> <br />involved and refusing to proceed .vith oonstruotion until a satisfaotory <br /> <br />agjustment by interstate compaot could be had betvreen the states as a <br />unfortur>..ately <br />prerequisite to the oXloendituro of public ft\llds, But/110 suoh policy has <br /> <br />been followed, 1be rights of the states have beon ignored . the funds <br /> <br />have been expencted and construotion has been followed, rather than <br /> <br />preoeded, by attempts to coerce the states of origin into a reoognition <br /> <br />or perpetual and exolusive servitudes upon their streams for the benefit <br /> <br />of the territory of neighboring ste,tes. <br />The mountain states have been unfortunately penalized in , <br /> <br />looal and private developement in o:t'der to Ilring: about II:X1JIIIIl temporary <br /> <br />monopolies of their .7ater supplies, not for the first benefit of their <br /> <br />government <br />territory but for the supply of vmter ~or ~ projects in lower <br /> <br />states without permitting first use in the state of origin with <br />This, unfortunately, <br />subsequent return and reuse in lower states. 'Ni has been aocomplished <br /> <br />through oooperative and concerted aotion of various federal depart- <br /> <br />ments in the denial of rights of way over goverllr.lent lands for private <br /> <br />or C!.1lasi-public enterprises in the upper states thereby preventing fhe <br /> <br />construotion of these enterprises and retarding further developenlent at <br /> <br />the solhrses of the strs!lIl1s involved. <br /> <br />"<-~ <br />