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tv en ~ ~ . . DNR assembled its own study staff and, in certain instances, retained private consultants (including university personnel) to conduct certain portions of the analyses, In addition the the MOA between the WRC and DNR, the WRC negotiated separate MOAs with the V,S. Bureau of Reclamation, Cooperative Instream Flow Service Group, U.S, Geological Survey, and the V,S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories to conduct portions of the assessment, The Colorado DNR, however, has retained general responsi- bility for coordinating the analyses and inputs provided by those Federal agencies, As pertinent to the assessment, those Federal agency products are incorporated herein. o PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT This report fulfills the obligations of the Colorado DNR to the liRC pursuant to the aforementioned ~IOA between those parties, No con- clusions are expressed on behalf of any State (including Colorado) or Federal agency as to the likelihood or desirability of the levels of EET development here postulated, nor as to the desirability of impacts associated with the provision of water supplies to those potential EETs. Rather, this document's sole function is to report the findings for which section l3(a) calls, without commenting upon whether those findings are in accordance with the plans, programs, policies, or expectations of any State or Federal agency, Any comments that Steering Committee members had on this report, insofar as they pertain to the factual and analytical components of the assessment, are included in appendix A. By agreement of the Steering Committee, all comments that address a State or Federal agency's poli- cies on the acceptability of the potential development of the subject EETs and the impacts associated therewith are to be sent directly to the WRC, since those comments are beyond the scope of matters that were to be addressed by the DNR. ~3