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o N 00 CO' I to be established by the Water Resources Council and in consultion tith the affected States, is required to conduct westwide studies to determine how and where to get additional water supplies for use I in the Colorado River Basin and to develop a plan for meeting not i . .; , , only present Colorado River water commitments but future water needs throughout the basin as well. , The Act declares that the satisfaction of the water requirements of the Mexican Water Treaty'constitutes a national obligation. At the time the Santa Fe Compact was negotiated, it was agreed that in . the event there should thereafter be a Treaty ...,ith nexico tha~ the water requirements of that treaty ...,ould be furnished from the surplus \1aters. It was at that timc anticipated that there would be ample . . . . surplus waters available for that purpos~ vmen the Treaty was ulti- . . . ., -'-'- " mately negotiated it was still believed that ample surplus supplies were available. This Act makes it clear that the Colorado River Basin States ,1ill be relieved of. any obligation to reduce their uses in order to supply the water requirements of the Treaty. It further. provides that the cost of such augmentation will be nonreimbursable or in other words, a cost charged against the' entire Nation. Aug- mentation studies only are authorized in this-legislation: augmenta- 1" tion works will not be built until they have been determined to be feasible and have been specifically authorized-by,the,Congress. The Act authorizes additional water resources developments in both the Lower and Upper Colorado Riv~r Basins. In the Lower Basin, the Central Arizona Project is authori~?d for the purpose of providing water for the rapidly expanding metropolitan areas of Phoenix and Tucson by coordinating the use,of Colorado River water and local water resources of the Gila River Basin The project includes ,. 21 '\ '\ r i , .~ ilL,;