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. . OOlUJ . . includes Denver's Fraser and Williams Forks conditional priorities 115,000 acre feet, and the Frying Pan Arkansas Project, as 72,000 acre feet. (e) They put the amount Colorado Springs already takes from the Blue as 17,000 acre feet; (f) they conclude that "it would be physically possible for Denver to divert from the Blue the 177,000 acre feet vThich Denver proposes." They do not comment on the effect on us of a Denver superior priority, We here quote from the report, Sections 7, 8, 9, 12: THEIR CONCLUSrONS: "We conclude from review of all available data and from independent analyses that: 1. All of the 7,500,000 acre feet of water per annum apportioned to the Upper Basin by the Colorado River Compact, may not actually be available for use because of the requir- ment that 75,000,000 acre feet be delivered at Lee Ferry during each consecutive ten-year period. 2. Compliance with this provision and limiting the carry-over in cyclic storage to the 22 years from 1930 to 1952 would have required that reservoirs of 21,000,000 acre feet capacity had been available in 1927 for cyclic regulation and that the aggregate depletion in the Upper Basin be no more than 6,200,000 acre feet per year. 3. The total of all depletions at sites of use in Colorado of the flow of Colorado River and its tributaries may thus be limited to 3,100,000 acre feet per year. 4, Depletions in Colorado under present conditions aggregate practically 1,450,000 acre feet per year. 5. Commitments for extension of existing projects and for other projects authorized would increase present depletions almost 200,000 acre feet per year. 6. The present uncommitted surplus which can be relied' -25- r-. '--'