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and "Central Arizona for many years has sought to supplement locally available water supplies with Colorado River water. The most recent plan to furnish supplemental water is known as the Central Arizona Project which was developed by the Bureau of Reclamation and published in H. D. 136, 81st Congress, 1st Session. In recent years, the plan has been updated to reflect current costs and conditions. Arizona sought to have the Central Arizona Project authorized more than a decade ago but was forestalled in its attempts to obtain Congressional authorization because of the conflicting claims of the States of the Lower Basin to the use of the waters available from the Colorado River. During the last decade the population of Arizona has doubled and the metropolitan areas of Phoenix and Tucson have grown more than twice as fast as the State as a whole. The water needs of the area have grown proportionately and now far exceed the water supplies available locally." (Page II-10 of such Report.) The Central Arizona Project, if constructed today, would fit into the Pacific Southwest Water Plan, and could well be the initial project under such Plan. It would not result in any disruption of the Pacific Southwest Water Plan in the event of the eventual adoption of such Plan and the construction of the several projects included in the initial phase thereof. Neither would it result in any increased cost in the construction of the 7Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 24 bit, 46,129,152 byte