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<br />~~~I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />water of the South Platte, together with the <br />water which is decreed to Denver from the Blue <br />River. So we finally concluded that we would <br />do a great disservice to the South Platte Val- <br />ley unless we considered the small amount of <br />remaining water resources in the valley as a <br />single unit and try to determine the maximum <br />benefits from that unit. Not only can we serve <br />the municipalities from the Two Forks but there <br />is also some irrigated land between the Two Forks <br />and the Hardin site, or the Narrows, which <br />should be served by any project development in <br />this area. <br /> <br />Essentially we agreed that the investiga- <br />tions should follow those lines. We should <br />consider this as a single unit and we should <br />ask that it be a participating unit of the <br />Missouri Basin Project and that Colorado parti- <br />cipate in those power revenues which originate <br />in states down below. To date we have re- <br />ceived nothinq from the Missouri Basin develop- <br />ment, but we are entitledEY law to a portion <br />of those power revenues which accrue to the <br />Basin Fund. These are not allocated specifi- <br />cally to states as are revenues under the Colo- <br />rado River Storage Project Act. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />To broaden this scope we have a brand new <br />plan. First, we must evaluate the Hardin site <br />in connection with the Narrows site. Which is <br />the best site from an economic vieWpoint? <br />Where can we get the most water and what are <br />the relative costs? Now we have all the in- <br />formation on both the Narrows site and the Two <br />Forks site. The drilling and so on has been <br />done years ago. We have no information on the <br />Hardin site.' without further field work the <br />Bureau cannot formulate a cost estimate of that <br />project. But the project is of great magnitude <br />and involves close cooperation with Denver and <br />all the other municipalities which may be able <br />to benefit from the project. It involves close <br />coordination with all the irrigators that can <br />be served from the project and we have infO{med <br />all the people that we knew were directly in- <br />terested. We asked that they either be here <br />