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<br />I <br /> <br />particular. We have received a report from <br />the Bureau of Mines on the mineral resources <br />and particularly the oil well development in <br />the Narrows area. I think (this is merely <br />an opinion at this time) that the estimates <br />for Weld County and Narrows will be very <br />close together and then we will have to make <br />a decision guided by the steering committee <br />and the desires of the water users on which <br />site will be adopted in the final plan. <br /> <br />We are waiting on the report which the <br />Corps of Engineers has promised us of the <br />flood control benefits on the main stem. We <br />do have a preliminary evaluation of flood <br />benefits for control of Bijou Creek. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Now getting to the Cache la Poudre, we <br />have an investigation scheduled to start on <br />that the 1st of July, assuming that we will <br />get the appropriations which are in the bud- <br />get at the present time. As Mr. Sparks men- <br />tioned, we met with a group of water users <br />representing the water users association - <br />essentially all of the irrigation water <br />users - in the Cache la poudre Basin from <br />the Cities of Fort Collins and Greeley and <br />discussed, to some extent, our program and <br />their needs and desires. At that meeting a <br />resolution was passed that they would, them- <br />selves, appoint a steering committee to guide <br />us in our future studies in the Cache la <br />poudre Basin. Following that meeting in Fort <br />Collins the, at least temporary, members of <br />the steering committee met with us in the <br />Regional Director's office and we further <br />discussed our program for that study. We <br />did point out to them at that time that one <br />of the first things we would need was an ex- <br />pression of their interest and possible in- <br />tent, in the consolidation of storage from <br />their scattered plains reservoirs which are <br />admittedly inefficient, into some upstream <br />reservoir or reservoirs. We hope that we <br />will have that information available so that <br />when we have funds to start our study, we <br />will be able to get off to a good start on <br />that. <br />