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nnZ2~~ - 21 - River Basin, may retain their respective range rights on the National Forest or public domain, and be permitted to transfer such rights without any cut in livestock numbers due to such transfer to new units which may be acquired by them in the area. (h) In the enforced acquisition of private property by the United States for Gunnison River Basin units of the Colorado River Storage Project plan, consideration be given by the government to protection against excessive increases in income taxes whiCh may result. " 15. That in June, 1951, the State of Colorado, acting through the Colorado ~ater Conservation Board, submitted to the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to Section 1 of the 1944 Flood Control Act, its official state Comments on the report of the dureau of Reclamation on the "Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects." These comments contained the following statement concerning storage units in the Gunnison River Basin as a part of the Colorado !liver Storage Project: ,- "Colorado believes that full study has not been given to these Gunnison River potentials. lilany local problems are presented.. Colorado most respectfully requests that it be given opportunity at a later date to state its ~osition with regard to the Gunnison River storage. To this end, it requests that the Bridgeport unit should not be included within the initial list and that further study and consideration should .be given to the location of storage units on the Gunnison River which develop, as far as possible under all of the conditions, the full power potential of that stream, permit the early construction of participating irrigation projects, and provide hold-over storage, all with the least possible disruption of the local economy. Colorado desires that a unit of the storage plan located on the Gunnison River be included in the initial authorizing legislation. It is anticipated that the re-study herein urged and further comments of the State ,~ll be made in due time so as to accomplish this purpose. Colorado pledges its full cooperation with the Bureau of Reclamation in the formulation of an acceptable Gunnison River plan." " That on September 13, 1951, the Upper Colorado River Commission, of which Colorado is a member state, unanimously approved a draft of proposed legisla- tion for Congressional ap~roval of the Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects plan of development in the Upper Colorado River Basin and for authorization of certain units of that plan. Section 1 of the proposed legislation contains the following language: "Be it enacted by the Sennte and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congres:3 aS5eiiibled, That, in order to - initiate the comprehensive-development of the water resources of the .Upper Colorado River Basin, the Congress, in the exercise of its con- stitutional authority to provide for the general welfare, to regulate commerce among the States, and .to make all needful rules and regulations respecting property belonging to the United States, and for the purposes,