BOARD00198

• Board Meeting Date: 1/15/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

the oil shale industry does not look bright.
This is only a layman's opinion.

It may be, in order to get the Yellow
Jacket Project under way, we will have to
phase it. We certainly must allow sufficient
water reserves for the ultimate development of
oil shale, because r am confident that it
will occur. It may be that we will have to
plan as a first phase agricultural uses only,
and those needs exist today. Then we sh6uld
make plans as part of the project for sufficient
reservoir storage to accommodate what certain-
ly will be at some time in the future a major
development of the oil shale reserves. This
will require some revision of the project plan.

The Yellow Jacket District, which is the
district primarily concerned with this proj-
ect, will be the sponsoring and contractual
agency. It has submitted comments to us
which have been forwarded to the Board Which
concur generally in the plan of development
presented in the project report. We have
also just this week received comments from
the Colorado River Water Conservation Dis-
trict in which it also concurs in the plan
of development. Both of those agencies, how-
ever, express one serious reservation. That
reservation goes to a paragraph in the project
report which states:

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'In order to minimize losses to big-game
hunting, estimated at $6,500 annually, l4,000
acres of private land in the Oak Ridge area
located between the White River on the south
and the upper section of the potential Josephine
Basin Canal on the north would be acquired and
developed along with 2,800 acres of adjacent
public domain. The lands would be made avail- I
able to the Colorado Division of Game, Fish
and Parks for administration as big-game
range.'

The cost of obtaining l4,000 acres of