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Zeutschel OS7000, 400 dpi, 8 bit,Time has not permitted securing advice from the Bureau of the Budget as to the relationship of this supplemental report to the program of the President. Sincerely yours, STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary of the Interior. U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of the Secretary, Washington, D.C., June 22, 1961. Hon. WAYNE N. ASPINALL, Chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. DEAR MR. ASPINALL: On April 24 we submitted to your committee a report supplementing our April 5 report on H. R. 2506, a bill granting approval of Navajo Indian irrigation and San Juan-Chama as participating projects of Colorado River storage project, and an identical bill except for the title, H. R. 2552, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Navajo Indian irrigation project and the initial stage of the San Juan-Chama project as participating projects of the Colorado River storage project, and for other purposes. Because of the urgency to make our supplementary report to your committee at that time, we stated that the report had not been cleared through the Bureau of the Budget. We have now been advised by the Bureau of the Budget that there is no objection to the supplementary report which was presented to your committee from the standpoint of the administration's program. Sincerely yours, KENNETH HOLUM,Assistant Secretary of the Interior. CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW In compliance with clause 3 of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by the bill, as introduced, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italic, existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in roman): Colorado River Storage Project (Act of April 11, 1956, 70 Stat. 105, as Amended, 43 U.S.C. 620-620o) In order to initiate the comprehensive development of the water resources of the Upper Colorado River Basin, for the purposes, among others, of regulating the flow of the Colorado River, storing water for beneficial consumptive use, making it possible for the States of the Upper Basin to utilize, consistently with the provisions of the Colorado River Compact, the apportionments made to and among them in the Colorado River Compact and the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, respectively, providing for the reclamation of arid and semiarid land, for the control of floods, and for the generation of hydroelectric power, as an incident of the foregoing purposes, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized (1) to construct, oper