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<br />512 <br /> <br />nI hope most sincerely that this Board will go <br />along with the eighteen projects without any question I <br />and will urge upOn "the Congress and" our Representatives <br />in Congress 'and our S~nators in Congress to get back .. <br />of the changed bill and urge its adoption in -the <br />amended form. <br /> <br />nThere were two other amendments which I <br />suggested. One was that the revised Curecanti <br />Project, and I had been told by Dean Crawford and <br />others that the Reclamation Bureau had made a restudy <br />of the Curecanti at Gunnison and had worked out a <br />feasible project which would not have the objection- <br />able features which the people in Gunnison protested <br />against when the project was originally submitted, be <br />substituted for th~ old Curecanti. I urge that the <br />new Curecanti be substituted.for the old Curecanti, <br />and then "I urge that Juniper Dam in Moffat County <br />be substituted for Cross Mountain Dam. I -hope most <br />sincerely that this Board will go along with those <br />two suggestions. I will say this about Juniper Dam <br />in Moffat Co~nty. In the upper States Compact, ~ <br />provision was inserted that in the Yampa River, <br />the Yampa River be not depleted to a flow of less <br />than 500,000 acre-feet annually at the Maybell <br />measuring station. That means that about half the <br />water in the Yampa River has been dedicated to the <br />State of Utah and must be permitted to pass just <br />below Juniper Dam. That is a terrific burden on <br />that River and certainly we should have a reservoir <br />on that River so that the Colorado possibilities in <br />that area would be fully protected. <br /> <br />- nIf :there ar-e any quest ions that I can clar-ify, <br />I will be glad to try to do so.n <br /> <br />MR. PUGHE:nWould you want to put in Juniper as an initial <br />project--not a participating project?n <br /> <br />GOV.JOHNSON: nThat is right--not a participating project even <br />though it will be ,in part, parti ci pat ing. n <br /> <br />MR. PUGHE: nJuniper will make some storage, some power, and <br />about 18,000 acres of irrigation. I thought there <br />might be someone from the Bureau who could give <br />us an idea of the cost.n <br /> <br />I <br />