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showed that total ~nual Upper Besin uses \~l~ remain well below 5:8 maf through at least the year 2005. Accordingly, the Upper Division would be able to deliver at Lee Ferry in excess of 8.25 maf, that is 7.5 maf plus one-half of the Treaty obligation, well past 2005 even though New Mexico, as it may under the provisions of Article III(b) of the Upper Basin Compact, has used more t~an its share of the hypothetical Upper Basin entitlement of 5.8 maf. This '-. excess was found sufficient to support consumptive uses of 100,000 acre-feet annually in New !-1exico under municipa.l and industrial con-tractS terminating in 2005. The New Mexico Interstate streem Commission concurred in - the 2005 term for contracts ~o long as it did not inhibit the development and use of New Mexico's water resources. It is, of course, New Mexico's position that at least the full amount of 100,000 acre-feet will be available for such contracts in per- petuity. On the basis of the Secretary's determination the Congress, with the support of the State, in 1968 authorized (PL 90-272) the Secretary to enter a contract with Southern Union Gas Company for 50 acre-feet annually for cooling in a compressor station; a con- tract with the Public Service Company of New Mexico for the diver- sion of 20,200 acre-feet of water, a part of which is now being used for the operation of the company's San Juan power plant near the Four Corners; and a contract withptah Construction & Mining Company for a diversion of 44,000 acre-feet annually. It now appears that water under this latter contract will be used for coal gasification units on the Navajo Reservation with a total capacity of 1 billion cubic feet per day. These units would be constructed on the ~avajo Reservation to process !)avajo coal. ._11'._