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RELEASE OF COLORADO RIVER WATER 13 Engineer may request, and also of those basic operating criteria that affect the schedule of operation. (i) The flood-control regulations of this section are subject to temporary modification by the District Engineer, Corps of Engineers, if found necessary in time of emergency. Requests for and action on such modifications may be made by any available means of communication, and the action taken by the District Engineer shall be confirmed in writing under date of same day to the office of the Regional Director of the Bureau of Reclamation in charge of the operations. Releases made in accordance with the regulations in this section shall not be required at rates or in a manner that would be inconsistent with the requirements for protecting the dam and reservoir or downstream dams and the levee systems in the Needles, Parker, Blythe, and Yuma area from major damage. In the event of danger of major damage to or failure of such dams or levee systems the releases required by the regulations of this section may be temporarily adjusted by the Bureau of Reclamation pending action of the District Engineer, Corps of Engineers, on request for approval of such adjustment. (j) Revisions of the Tables of Minimum Average Releases for Flood Control Purposes may be developed from time to time as necessary by the Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation. Each such revision shall be effective upon the date specified in the approval thereof by the Chief of Engineers and the Commissioner of Reclamation and from that date until replaced shall be the Tables of Minimum Average Releases for Flood Control Purposes currently in force for purposes of this section. Copies of the Tables of Minimum Average Releases for Flood Control currently in force shall be kept on file in and may be obtained from the offices of the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, and the Commissioner of Reclamation, Washington, D.C., and also from the offices of the District Engineer, Corps of Engineers, and the Regional Director, Bureau of Reclamation, in charge of the locality. [Regs., January 27, 1954-ENGWE] (58 Stat. 890; 33 U.S.C. 709) [SEAL] WM. E. BERGIN, Major General, U.S. Army, The Adjutant General. [F. R. Doc. 54-1148; Filed, Feb. 17, 1954; 8:53 a.m.] Mr. DOMINY. As a means of conserving water, we decided not to start flood control releases in April 1962. As a result of this decision we salvaged approximately 280,000 acre-feet of water that otherwise would have been released downstream at a time when it could not be properly managed for river regulation. Senator ANDERSON. Then you did not regard this requirement as very binding, did you? Mr. DOMINY. I felt that this was a calculated risk, that under the circumstances we should take. Senator ANDERSON. You had some authority in the matter? Mr. DOMINY. The administrative head always has some authority if he is willing to assume responsibility, which we were willing to do. We felt quite safe with the Navajo Dam, ready to start filling very soon, and Flaming Gorge in prospect to start filling reasonably soon, and Glen Canyon-incidentally, we had already written to the Army requesting them to give us revised flood control criteria, based on the imminence of these other structures on the Colorado River system. But as of April 1, we had not received from the Army any modification. We did assume the responsibility for deviating from the prescribed flood control regulations, knowing that we had river-control problems, and hesitating to dump water on a scarce river at a time when it could not be used to advantage. A large portion of that water probably would have been, in April, diverted by Mexico at Morelos Dam and, therefore, would have served no river regulation purposes below that point.Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 1,488,755 byte