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<br />Mr. Sparks: I would like to use the small map up there to illustrate <br />the problem. We have already covered in some detail how these areas <br />came about. In this green area is the original primitive area classified <br />under the old regulations. Then Congress enacted a classification system <br />which superseded the old regulations which the Department of Agricul- <br />ture had. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />In the original hearings in 1966, the Forest Service proposal included <br />153,000 acres. This was an increase which included an area greater than <br />the original primitive area. The primitive area had 102,000 acres. So <br />the Forest Service did expand the primitive area in its original pro- <br />posal. The Colorado Division of Wildlife and casc, Colorado Open Space <br />Council, proposed the larger boundaries. <br /> <br />The present bill is basically a compromise between the original Forest <br />Service proposal and the proposals made by the Division of Wildlife and <br />COSC. There are still some areas not included within these present <br />boundaries, and the boundaries as near as we have been able to make them <br />out from the bill. is this yellow area. The black lines going around <br />this area. The yellow part was an extension of the original Forest <br />Service proposal. <br /> <br />Mr. Berthelson: Larry, if the Forest Service didn't know those lines, <br />how did you know that? Where did you get them from? <br /> <br />Mr. Sparks: We took them from the Forest Service maps as near as we <br />could decipher them. Surveys in that country are extremely difficult. <br /> <br />There are still areas that the CDSC is proposing which are not included <br />within the present bill. Mainly, this area up in the northeast. The <br />areas that casc proposes are outside of this area. They have not been <br />included within these boundaries of the bill itself and casc, as I <br />understand, is still pushing for the inclusion of a larger area. <br /> <br />The area that has been mentioned, the Meadows area of the South Fork, <br />is this area here. This was the controversial area as far as water <br />resource development is concerned. <br /> <br />The Bureau of Reclamation, at the request of the state of Colorado, made I <br />a rather extensive reconnaissance survey of potential water projects in <br />western Colorado. Some fifty or more projects were studied on a recon- <br />naissance basis. Reports then were submitted to the state water board <br />and to other interested people and agencies in Colorado reflecting the <br />results of this reconnaissance study. One of those projects in the <br />reconnaissance report which this board received in 1967 was the Flat <br /> <br />-36- <br />