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.:ltl99 I know, no diversion has as yet been made, but we are working again on the accounting system required for taking care of that. I Another item which effects the Blue River and the Green Mountain Reservoir is that the Regional Directors of Regions 4 and 7 have proposed to the commissioner of Recla- mation that about 5,000 acre-feet of Green Mountain water be dedicated to the Silt Proj- ect, with provision for integration of the Upper Colorado Storage in Western Division, Missouri River Basin Power, to the extent that would be necessary to compensate the Colorado-Big Thompson Project for any power interference occasioned by such demand de- liveries to the Silt Project. This was done back in about February. I don't think I have previously reported it to this Board, because it was an internal matter. We now have approval from the Commissioner, in principle, to that proposal, with the details to be worked out between the two Regions. We have not yet held any meetings or discussions with Region 4 on the details of the implementation. But I think this is a very forward step in the utilization and conservation of the water on the western slope with western projects. I One other item, and I believe it will complete what I have to report, there has been established an office for Missouri River Basin planning. That is in connection with compre- hensive basin planning which is authorized and which is going on allover the United States and covers all of the main river basins in the west and, in fact, even in the east. It covers them by all of the departments of the government and not necessarily just the Bureau of Reclamation but other departments and in some areas where the Bureau isn't in- volved, and in some areas where some other department may not be involved. This office was established on March 27th. Bruce Johnson, the Regional Director of Region 6 at Billings, was appointed as the planning engineer for