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<br />003259 <br /> <br />H.R. 3547 BY REPRESENTATIVE HANK BROWN -- A WILD AND SCENIC <br />RIVER BILL FOR COLORADO'S POUDRE RIVER <br /> <br />Introduction <br /> <br />The Cache la Poudre River, located in Northeastern Colorado, has been <br />proposed for designation under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act through a <br />Bill (H.R. 3547, 99th Congress), introduced by Representative Hank Brown of <br />Colorado. This river is located entirely within Congressman Brown's <br />Congressional District. The bill has been co-sponsored by each of <br />Colorado's five other members of the House: Representatives Wirth, <br />Schroeder, Kramer, Schaeffer. and Stran9. Senators Armstrong and Hart are <br />supporting this effort in the Senate. <br /> <br />The language of this Bill represents the cuimination of three years of <br />negotiations between the principal water users within the Basin, on the one <br />hand. and environmental advocates of Poudre Wild and Scenic River <br />designation. on the other hand. <br /> <br />Major concessions have been made by water users and environmentalists <br />alike, resulting in the language of H.R. 3547. The Bill, if enacted into <br />law. would designate seventy-five out of eighty-three miles of the Poudre <br />River as either wild or recreational. leaving eight miles for potential <br />water development in the future. a compromise which all sides have <br />endorsed. (See Appendix E). The designated portions of the river would <br />include the mainstem of the Poudre from its source in Rocky Mountain <br />National Park to a point below the community of Poudre Park above the mouth <br />of the canyon west of Fort Collins, Colorado. The South Fork of the Poudre <br />would be designated in its entirety. except for a small portion which would <br />be set aside for the Rockwell Reservoir site. <br /> <br />This booklet has been prepared by the Northern Colorado Water <br />Conservancy District to provide some facts about this river system and H.R. <br />3547. Ac concise map of the compromise designation proposal contained in <br />H.R. 3547 is shown following page 6. <br /> <br />Wild and Scenic River Studies <br /> <br />Under authority of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. the U.S. Forest <br />Service issued a Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Report on April <br />8, 1980. regarding eighty-three miles of the Poudre River Basin. from the <br />source of the mainstem of the Poudre in Rocky Mountain National Park to the <br />mouth of the canyon above Fort Collins, and the South Fork of the Poudre <br />River to its confluence with the mainstem above the community of Poudre <br />Park. <br />