The Proposed Lower Colorado River Project - An Outline of the Study

Document: Attachment A, The Proposed Colorado River Project, 1963, page 1ATTACHMENT A THE PROPOSED LOWER COLORADO RIVER PROJECT An Outline of the Study The proposed lower Colorado River Project study initiated by the Secretary of the Interior is a regional approach to the water and power problems in the Pacific Southwest. A number of individual projects are presently being studied under Congressional directives in parts of the lower Colorado River Basin in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. The purpose of the broader study herein outlined is to consolidate investigations underway, expand the study, and find a regional comprehensive solution to the immediate and long-term water problems and incidental power problems of this section of the United States. The Chairmen of the affected committees of the Congress, as well as other members of Congress, Governors, and interested agencies and groups of the affected States, will be consulted as soon as preliminary information is collected, to obtain the best possible advice on the direction and extent of the study as it progresses. The proposed lower Colorado River Project would be patterned, in part, on the successful approach to similar problems in the upper Colorado River Basin which resulted in authorization by the Congress in 1956 of the Colorado River Storage Project. Such a lower ColoradoEpson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 731,519 byte