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of a power pool; water quality management must be an integral part of the scheme of operation; consideration should be given to possible effects on the Salton Sea as a fishing and recreational area. The California comments also highlighted the desirability and need for continuing cooperative planning studies relating to various aspects pertinent to future expansion of the plan, including special studies of regional water requirements and supply; and outlined the State's desires with respect to certain details of financial and contractual arrangements. Nevada. Governor Sawyer fully endorses the principles of regional development and expressed great interest in increased water supply for Nevada from water salvage, ground-water recovery, and water import; all stages of the Southern Nevada Water Supply Project should be recommended for authorization; if the southern Nevada area is not to face disaster, the Southern Nevada Water Project must be authorized in the next session of Congress; the Moapa Valley Pumping Project should be included for authorization in the first phase; Nevada should share in benefits of the salvage and recovery program; the desalinization plant should be financed as a research project and not as a part of the plan; the subsidy of municipal and industrial water supply should be eliminated; it appears prudent to include the storage works associated with enlargement of the California Aqueduct in the plan proposed for immediate authorization. Upper Basin States. Governors Love, Campbell, Clyde, and Hansen submitted comments which were similar in many aspects. All concurred with the 7Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 14,219,264 byte