AZ vs. CA:25 California Exhibits, Vol. XXV; Nos. 7501-7859

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recommend that detailed investigations of potential projects be continued and expanded to obtain adequate information through which the basin States can select and recommend projects for successive stages of development. The scope and purpose of the report appear generally to have been understood, although, in some instances, they have misconstrued by some of the commenting States and Federal agencies. A number of comments are directed to the lack of detail in such items as economic analysis of individual projects, water-supply studies, land classification, ground-water investigations, project-operation studies, power-output characteristics and market, quality of water, and silt control. The report, consistent with its scope and purpose, treats all of these subjects generally and does not purport to consider them in detail. The Department should continue and intensify its studies of all the problems related to the development and full economic utilization of the water resources of the basin, and the report so recommends. With reference to projects for the exportation of water from the natural drainage basin of the Colorado River to adjoining territory, Colorado has noted that export-diversion potentialities in that State are discussed less fully than certain parallel potentialities elsewhere in the basin. In preparing the report, the policy adopted was to give little more than mention to export-diversion projects, leaving their further discussion to reports concern-