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<br />02317 <br /> <br />e.ooordance with the Bureau's instruotions from the Congress md the oontinuing <br />policy laid 401lll by theCClDgress over a period of 45 yell.1'8 for the use of _ten behlI1d <br />federally finanoed dems for irrigation purposes. <br />Atter several days along the Rio Grande talking to Amarloan irrigationists, <br />offioials or irri~tion distriots, and the American Commissioner of the International <br /> <br />BO\mdary and Water CommiBBion. loan, on the strength of personal observatiOll am\ <br />f:l.rst-ohaDd knowledge, report to you that there is Med for this reservoir and dlUll. <br />With the construotion by the Intol'Dat:l.onal Boundary and Wator Commission, the Bureau <br />of Reolamation stands rea~ to prooeed with the divers:l.an from the reservoir of the <br />llnited states' share of the waters by oonstruDtion of a systlllll of oanals, alreattr <br />authorized by the Congress, the oost of whioh will be reimbursed to the United States <br />by the benefioiaries aocording to Reolamation taw. <br />1'01' the first t1me sinoe the ear17 p:l.ODIlers trod the banks of this histori. river, <br />the national Govel'mDllnt, in oooplln1ilon with .the people of the State of 'rexas.. 11 !.n a <br />position to go forward with oonfidence in pla~1ng the stAbilization and ezpanaion <br />of water use on the Lower Rio Grande, partioularly in what has 001llll to be known as the <br />"Magio Valley.1t This possibility 11 iDherent 111 the fl'llAty of February 3, 1944. The <br />oonsummation of that treaty refleots the intell1@;elXt coopllntion of the "Govermnent of <br />the United XIlnoan State., the alert and helpful guidance of the States of the Colore.do <br />River and the Rio Grande Basins in the United states, the Amerioan COlllll1issiOMr of the <br />reoently ores:ted International Boundary and Water Commission, the DeparlmelIb ot State, <br />and other Federal agenoies, and the Foreign Relations C01IlJIIittee whioh took testimon;r <br />aggre@;at1ng nearly 2.000 pages in the courSEl of hearings on the then proposed.treaty. <br />\, <br /> <br />fhis cClllllll1ttee, in the course of hearings on neasureB to finsnoe water <br /> <br />in:vestigations and the oonduot of negotiations with llenoo frcm time to time, s:l.noe as <br />far baok as 1889. has already heard at length testimoDiY' to the need for conservation <br />md beIlBf10iel use of the waters of streams on the Southwestern frontier. <br /> <br />-2- <br />