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Stated Colorado EXECUTIVE CHAMBERS DENVER November 27, 1963 JOHN A. LOVE Governor Honorable Stewart L. Udall Secretary of the Interior Interior Building Washington, D. C. 20425 RE: Pacific Southwest Water Plan. Dear Secretary Udall: In response to your letter of August 26, 1963, and pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Flood Control Act of 1944, the State of Colorado has reviewed your report on the Pacific Southwest Water Plan, dated August 1963. The report presents a vast and comprehensive plan of water development in the southwestern portion of the United States, and it has not been possible for us to fully analyze in detail all the ramifications of the proposed development or to adequately assess its future impact upon the states of the Colorado River Basin. Our comments on the plan that are submitted herewith are conditioned upon our assumed right to review and comment on more detailed plans as they are developed, either for the Pacific Southwest Water plan or for its component parts. At the outset of these comments I wish to emphasize that we here in Colorado fully comprehend the urgent need for developing additional water supplies in the Pacific Southwest. I wish to impress you with our earnest desire to cooperate in every manner with your department and with the states of the southwest towards a solution of the future critical water shortages of that area. Such cooperation, however, must be consistent with our own needs, objectives and legal rights here in Colorado. Under the plan presented to us, there is proposed a comprehensive region-wide development of water resources to be financed through the operation of a basin fund in a manner similar to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund of the Colorado River Storage Project. Based upon our own experience, we canEpson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 13,975,552 byte