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. . that Chairman Aspinall stated: "Since 1964, there have been continuing negotiations among all of the States of the Colorado River Basin with respect to regional planning and legislation which would protect the rights and interests of all of the States. The final outcome of these prolonged and complex negotiations is the legislation we have before us today. None of the States agree with everything that is in H .R. 3300. There has been 'give and take' on the part of each. However, this is legislation that all can live with, and it represents the highest degree of cooperation and understanding. We have the opportunity to bring the entire basin together and into closer agreement than ever before. There is the opportunity for Arizona to go forward with the central Arizona project which it so desperately needs, with the understanding that all of the States of the basin will work together to meet the prospective as well as the present critical water situation in the Pacific Southwest, including the entire Colorado River Basin. For the first time , there is an opportunity for real peace on the Colorado River." (Emphasis added) Metropolitan agrees with Chairman Aspinall's statement, particularly the last sentence of the above quotation regarding the opportunity for real peace on the Colorado River. Representatives of the Lower Division believed this was the objective of their negotiations with the Upper Division and representatives of the Secretary on the long-range operating criteria required by Section 602 of P.L. 90-5370 It was not until the outright repudiation of the Seven-State Agreement by the Upper Division that representatives of the Lower Division feared for the future of this objective. There are future problems which must be negotiated, 1. e., augmentation, funding of reclamation projects, problems of water quality, and miscellaneous Colorado River matters. How can the objective stated -18-