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Show Commission and. its four member States suggested amendments to H. R. 4671. The position of the Upper Colorado River Commission with respect to the principles involved is expressed in a resolution adopted at an Adjourned Regular Meeting held in Salt Lake City, Utah on August 16, 1965. The text of this resolution: RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the states of the Lower Colorado River Basin need the construction of major additional facilities to provide an adequate water supply for a growing and nationally important area, and WHEREAS, numerous bills have been introduced in the Congress to authorize a federally financed project to accomplish this end, and WHEREAS, the Upper Colorado River Commission representing the Upper Division States of the Colorado River Basin is faced with identical problems, and desires to cooperate with the states of the Lower Basin and to support necessary federal legislation, provided that such legislation adequately protects the continuing growth of the states of the Upper Division, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Upper Colorado River Commission at an Adjourned Regular session assembled at Salt Lake City, Utah, this 16th day of August, 1965, that it approves and supports the proposed federal participation in the further development of the Colorado River Basin PROVIDED and PROVIDED ONLY, when and if the following principles are incorporated into any authorizing legislation: 1. That the Secretary of the Interior shall be directed and required to plan and operate any and all federal projects within the Lower Colorado River Basin, whether heretofore or hereafter constructed, to the end that diversions from the mainstream of the Colorado River below Lee Ferry shall be limited when necessary so as not to prejudice, impair, or preclude the future federal authorization or other development of projects which will be required for the annual consumptive use of water from the Colorado River system in the Upper Division states of seven million five hundred thousand acre-feet of water, or such part thereof as may be physically available, after delivery of 75,000,000 acre-feet at Lee Ferry in any period of ten consecutive years. 50 |