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3436 Fund or other sources. The project would deplete the flow of the river by about 63,000 acre-feet annually. Middle Park The Middle Park project would develop about 67,000 acre-feet of water for the irrigation of about 9,885 acres of supplemental service land and 22,945 acres of full service land. The project would also pro- vide benefits to fish and wildlife conservation, recreation, and possibly flood control. It would cost about $10,245,000, all of which has tenta- tively been allocated to irrigation. The irrigators and local interests would repay about $1,985,000 of the cost and the remaining $8,260,000 would be repaid from the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund or other sources. The project would deplete the flows of the Colorado River by about 29,000 acre-feet annually. Other Potential Developments In-basin municipal and industrial water projects . Several potential municipal and industrial water developments within the Colorado River Basin in Colorado are being considered by private in- terests, communities, and the Colorado River Water Conservation District for oil shale developments and other potential industries. The projects are: (1) Phillips-Wheeler project (Humble Oil) which would deplete the flow of Colorado River by about 10,000 acre-feet annually; (2) Flattops project, previously considered by the Bureau of Reclamation and now the subject of separate studies, one being made jointly by the Colorado River Water Conservation District and the Humble Oil Company and the other by the Rocky Mountain Power Company; the project would deplete the flows of the Colorado River by about 30,000 acre-feet annually; (3) Red Cliffs project, also under consideration by the Colorado River Water Conserva- tion District, would deplete the flows of the river by about 20,000 acre- feet annually; (4) Azure project, Colorado River Water Conservation Board, would deplete the .flow of the Colorado River by about 7,000 acre-feet annually; (5) expansions of the existing Hayden REA thermal powerplant would deplete the flows of the river by an additional 8,000 acre-feet an- nually as a result of use of water for cooling purposes; (6) Rangely proj- ect, sponsored by the Rangely community in the lower White River area, would deplete the river by about 5,000 acre-feet annually; and (7) Una Reservoir on Colorado River near the tO~l of Grand Valley, Colorado River Water Conservation Board, would deplete the flow of the Colorado River by about 30,000 acre-feet annually. In-basin irrigation projects Potential long-range irrigation projects in western Colorado, in- vestigated in rough reconnaissance scope by the Bureau of Reclamation, are listed on the following page. 8