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- • r � C <br />Divide and into Hog Park Reservoir, a storage facility within <br />the Medicine Bow National Forest on the eastern slope of the <br />Continental Divide that was constructed, and is owned and <br />operated, by the CBPU. Released water flows into the <br />Encampment River, a tributary of the North Platte River. The <br />existing transbasin diversion tunnel (constructed in the <br />1960's by the CBPU as part of Stage I) would be paved, and a <br />pipeline built from the east portal of the tunnel to the <br />reservoir. The proposed construction would yield an estimated <br />10,750 additional acre feet of water per year under the <br />Decision. Hog Park Reservoir would be enlarged to accommodate <br />the additional 10,750 acre feet by raising the water level 53 <br />feet, i.e.: from 8,402 to 8,455 feet above sea level, to <br />increase its capacity al.�ost 10 fold. <br />(c) The Forest Service would also authorize the <br />enlargement of the CBPU Rob Roy Reservoir, from a storage <br />caoacity of 8,895 acre feet to 35,433 acre feet including (a) <br />enlargement of the dam e�:bank ent, (b) construction of a <br />spillwav, and (c) conversion of the old spillway- outlet works <br />'Co air outlet works only, and access roads necessary for this <br />construction. The enlarged Rob Roy Reservoir would store the <br />additional water to be diverted from Douglas Creek. <br />13. The purpose of the Stage II transbasin diversion is <br />to collect and divert water from the Colorado River Basin to <br />the North Platte River Basin as replacement water for water <br />the CBPU takes out of the North Platte River, but for which it <br />? National ..n'7iron;aen::a1 ?c' icy `pct of 1969 42 U.S.C. 54321 <br />e*_ sec. prepared a draft enviranmental impact statement <br />alleges it does not have prior appropriate water use <br />rights. <br />The CB?U's <br />allegations are contrary to the decree of <br />the <br />United States <br />Supreme Co•.;rt in State of Nebraska v. <br />State of <br />P.;' ' ?� <br />:;voming_ , <br />325 U.S. 603 (19145), Article X, that was entered <br />pursuant <br />to the Court's opinion reported in 325 U.S. <br />589 <br />(1945). <br />14. Defendants Rupp and Rollens, pursuant <br />to the <br />? National ..n'7iron;aen::a1 ?c' icy `pct of 1969 42 U.S.C. 54321 <br />e*_ sec. prepared a draft enviranmental impact statement <br />