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<br />~ -.. <br /> <br />'1,,'" <br />~- :) <br /> <br /> <br />HIGH PLAINS ASSOCIATES <br /> <br />Camp Dresser &. McKee Ine. <br />Black &. Veatch <br />Arthur D, Little Ine. <br /> <br />March 31, 1982 <br /> <br />The Hanarable Malcalm Baldrige <br />Secretary af Cammerce <br />Department af Cammerce <br />14th Street between Canstitutian <br />and E Street, N.W. <br />Washingtan, DC 20230 <br /> <br />The Hanarable William p, Clements <br />Gavernar af Texas <br />Chairman, High Plains Study Cauncil <br />State Capital <br />Austin, TX 78711 <br /> <br />Gentlemen: <br /> <br />High Plains Assaciates, as General Cantractar, are pleased to' submit <br />this final repart an the Six-State High Plains-Ogallala Aquifer Regianal <br />Resaurces Study in fulfillment af our Cantract NO'. CO-A01-78-00-2550 <br />with the U.S. Department af Cammerce. The Study has been canducted <br />pursuant to' the pravisians and abjectives af Public Law 94-587 (90 <br />Stat, 2943), Sec. 193 which autharized the Study, under directian af <br />the High Plains Study Cauncil. We have been assisted in the Study by <br />each af the states, Calarada, Kansas, Nebraska, New MexicO', Oklahama <br />and Texas. <br /> <br />The repart and assaciated study reparts present the results af aur <br />analyses af the ecanamic, enviranmental and sacial impacts at the <br />lacal, subregianal, state, re9ianal and federal levels af alternative <br />water resaurce management strate9ies which wauld extend the duratian <br />af availability af water far irrigatian fram the Ogallala Aquifer ar <br />augment the Aquifer supply, Our prajectians af the future af the <br />energy sectar af the High Plains regianal ecanamy and the patential <br />far future nanagricultural ecanamic develapments are alsO' presented, <br />We believe that this infarmatian, cambined with that in the U,S, Army <br />Carps af Engineers' repart an patential interstate interbasin water <br />transfers, will be useful to' the High Plains Study Cauncil and the <br />Secretary in farmulating recammendatians to' the states and the Cangress <br />fat actians ". , , to' assure an adequate supply af faad to' the Natian <br />and to' pramate the ecanamic vitality af the High Plains Regian, , ." <br />(P,L, 94-587, See, 193), <br /> <br />Six State High Plains- Ogallala Aquifer Study, <br /> <br />Project Headquarters, 3445 Executive Center Drive;Suite 220; Austin, TX 78731/(5\ Z) 345-98Z0 <br />iii <br /> <br />!f <br />