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<br />guidelines be employed in the multiobjective planning process to a scope <br /> <br />and level appropriate to the study (appraisal, <br /> <br />plan). <br /> <br />feasibilitv. definite <br /> <br />President's Water Policy <br /> <br />On June 6, 1978. the President sent to Congress a set of water policy <br /> <br />;,ni.ti.atives to advance goals in the Brea of watet' resource development. <br /> <br />These initiatives emphasi.ze water conseTvat;.on, environmental qua.Ji.ty, <br /> <br />enhanced Federal-State cooperation and a greater degree of efficiency and <br /> <br />cost-effectiveness in proposed water resource pTojects. ~e SeTvlce will <br /> <br />implement these initiatives to the extent possible "ithin the bounds of <br /> <br />current legislation. <br /> <br />Colorado River Storage Project Act <br /> <br />Congress enacted the Colorado River Storage Project and Participating <br /> <br />Projects Act in April of 1956, as Public Law 485. ~he act was passed in <br /> <br />order to initiate the comprehensive development of the water resources of <br /> <br />the Upper Colorado River Basin for the purposes. among others, of <br /> <br />regulating the flow of the Colorado River and for storing water for <br /> <br />?eneficial consumptive use. This act made it possible for the states of <br /> <br />tbe Upper Basin to utilize the apportionments made to them by the Colorado <br /> <br />River Compact and the Upper Colorado <br /> <br />River <br /> <br />r:ompact. <br /> <br />The water <br /> <br />apportionments can be used for the reclamation of arid and semi-arid land. <br /> <br />for the control of floods and for the generation of hydroelectric power. <br /> <br />11. <br />