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<br />. <br /> <br />CHAPTER I <br /> <br />SUMMARY <br /> <br />Act of April 11, 1956, for the completion of planning reports. These <br />were the Juniper and Yellow Jacket Units, and were redesignated as <br />projects in their own right. <br /> <br />A new appraisal study was conducted on the Juniper Project, which <br />would be located in the southern part of Moffat County, northwestern Rio <br />Blanco, and eastern Uintah County. A plan was developed that would <br />provide full service irrigation to 8,000 acres in Utah and 32,000 acres <br />in Colorado. It would have provided for the annual production of 96 <br />million kilowatt-hours of hydroelectric power and a total storage capac- <br />ity of 1,839,000 acre-feet. <br /> <br />Feasibility studies were initiated for the Yellow Jacket Project in <br />1961. Plans were presented in 1968 and 1972 which were not acceptable <br />to fish and wildlife units. A planning team was organized in 1975 and a <br />plan was formulated that apparently was accepted. The Yellow Jacket <br />Project has become a unit of the Resource Study. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The Yellow Jacket Unit plan as formulated by the planning team <br />would provide for the development of 126,400 acre-feet of water for <br />multipurpose use in the White River Basin near the town of Meeker and in <br />the Milk Creek drainage of the Yampa River Basin. In the White River <br />Segment of the unit, 60,000 acre-feet would be for the oil shale indus- <br />try, 30,000 acre-feet for the coal industry, 17,900 acre-feet for irri- <br />gation, and 5,000 acre-feet for municipal use. The Milk Creek Segment <br />water supply would consist of 5,000 acre-feet for coal development and <br />8,500 acre-feet for irrigation. <br /> <br />Because the Yellow Jacket Unit feasibility studies are farther <br />advanced than other units of the Resource Study and because they could <br />conceivably be completed in a relatively short time, the Yellow Jacket <br />Unit is discussed separately from other proposals in this report. <br />Chapter VII is devoted exclusively to the Yellow Jacket Unit, and other <br />proposals are discussed in less detail in Chapter VI. <br /> <br />The Colorado River Basin Act of September 1968 authorized the Upper <br />and Lower Yampa Projects for feasibility investigations. The Upper <br />Yampa Project consisted of the Hayden Mesa and Wessels Units of the <br />Yampa-White Project and an earlier proposed project, the Yampa Project <br />near the headwaters region of the Yampa River. The Lower Yampa Project <br />was a combination of the Juniper Project and the Great Northern Unit of <br />the Yampa-White Project. <br /> <br />The feasibility studies were initiated in 1969 on the Lower Yampa <br />Project, but were not completed because of a shift in National priorities <br />away from irrigation. Preliminary economic and environmental .emphasis <br />plans as required by present planning procedures were developed by a <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />8 <br /> <br />/ <br />