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1 1 MR. KROEGER: MR. MARK: MR. STAPLETON: MR. MARK: will automatically set back any operation starts. " "Then a group like the San Juan Basin group is caught in this budget squeeze?" "Right. Let us say, the San Luis Valley has had an application in for over two years and the San Juan Basin has had one in for over a year; the five counties in northwest Colorado including part of one county in Wyoming and all the counties from Summit County down the Colo- rado River including Mesa County - they are in what they call the Colorado River Valley proj- ect - and one from Elbert County, taking those five counties east to Kansas (that application has been in several months) and there are two more developing in northeast Colorado and south- east Colorado, about five counties each. So if we don't get new planning starts, in effect that freezes progress in the program." "Mr. Mark, what is your latest snow survey? The last one?" "The last official forecast we made was as of May 1. Now we did follow up a forecast made April 1. We did on some of the major rivers make surveys in early May and this simply pretty much substantiated the April forecast. As I recall the highest water content was in the northern part of the mountains in Colorado that would effect the Big Thompson and some of those rivers up there and some of the other rivers too, I think the White and the Yampa. Some of these forecast spots showed 2l~~ of snow over the normal period. -All of them increased slightly. The only two that were still below normal was the San Juan and the Rio Grande Basin. They have come up a little as I recall but not appreciably. We didn't put any news out on that, that is a news release, although reports went out to everyone, because we didn't think it would be substantially different than the picture that had been published earlier."