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Zeutschel OS7000, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 7,099,680 bytesabout $53,400,000 are made tentatively to irrigation; $29,200,000 to municipal and industrial water supply; and $3 million to future uses. The recreation costs would be nonreimbursable. Irrigation water users probably would repay about $8 million of the irrigation allocation under repayment contracts as provided by the Colorado River Storage Project Act of April 11, 1956. Costs allocated to irrigation in excess of the irrigators' ability to repay would be paid from New Mexico's apportionment of the Upper Colorado River Basin fund revenues as provided in that act. Costs allocated to municipal and industrial water supply, including interest during construction, would be repaid over a 50-year period with interest. Costs allocated to future uses, which involve the provision of excess capacity in the initial stage to permit later project expansion, would also be an obligation against New Mexico's apportionment of revenues and repaid therefrom if not otherwise collected as a result of subsequent allocations to the water users. The benefit-cost ratio of the initial stage development is 1.26 to 1 for a 100-year period of analysis and 0.81 to 1 if direct benefits only are used in a 50-year period of analysis. COORDINATED REPORT APPROVED BY SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR The committee calls attention to the comments on S. 3648 of the Department of the Interior under date of July 8, 1958, in a letter to Chairman Murray, printed at the conclusion of Report No. 2198, and to the letters of March 4, 1959, and March 9, 1959, from the Bureau of the Budget and the Secretary of the Interior , relating to S. 72. The feasibility of the engineering, economic and related phases of the Navajo Indian irrigations project and the San Juan-Chama diversion reaffirm the action of the Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton on October 16, 1957. On that date over his own signature, the Secretary approved and adopted the proposed coordinated report of the Office of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Reclamation with respect to the two developments dealt with in the pending legislation. The coordinated report approved and adopted by the Secretary followed years of thorough and intensive investigations by the competent engineers and economists of the two agencies responsible to the Secretary of the Interior. The committee respects the view of the Bureau of the Budget, as an arm of the President. Nevertheless, the Secretary of the Interior is charged directly by law with formulating data, reports, and recommendations on the basis of years of field investigations by trained personnel and review by competent superiors. Therefore, the committee is of the opinion that authorization at this time of the two projects as set forth in S. 72 is fully justified on the basis of the report ææapproved and adoptedÆÆ by the Secretary of the Interior on October 16, 1957, as modified with respect to minor details by the Department's letter of July 8, 1958, signed by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Fred G. Aandahl