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<br />li" 0), --l <br />0....1 <br /> <br />5. The Sierra-Cascade Project (1964), which proposed diverting water <br /> <br />from the Columbia River to Lake Mead, Nevada. <br /> <br />6. The Yellowstor]e-Snake-Green Project (1964), which would divert water <br />, . <br /> <br />from the Snake River in western Wyoming to the Green River and <br /> <br />thence the Colorado River. The loss to the Snake River, a tributary <br /> <br />of the Columbia, would be replaced by a diversion from the <br /> <br />Yellowstone River in Montana, a tributary of the Missouri River. <br /> <br />7. The New Water Resource Plan for the Great Plains (1967), which <br /> <br />proposed diverting water from the Missouri River in Nebraska to <br /> <br />western Nebraska, eastern Colorado, western Kansas, western <br /> <br />Oklahoma, western Texas and eastern New Mexico. The importing <br /> <br />areas would lie in several river basins. <br /> <br />8. The Texas Water Plan (1968), which proposed taking water from the <br /> <br />lower Mississippi River basin to the high plains of Texas and New <br /> <br />Mexico.7 <br /> <br />More recently, as part of the Six-State High Plains Ogallala Aquifer <br />Regional Resources Study, authorized by Public Law 9li-587 (90 Stat. 29li3) <br />and published in March 1982, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducted a <br /> <br />study of potential interstate, interbasin transfers of water to terminal <br /> <br />reservoirs in the High Plains Region. The water was to replace dwindling <br /> <br />ground water for irrigation purposes. Four alternatives, or general routes, <br /> <br />for water transfer were studied by the Corps: <br /> <br />-9- <br />