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<br />116 <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />should be made by the state of Colorado respecting the Colorado <br />River Storage Project and participating projects prepared by <br />Region IV of the Bureau of Reclamation. <br /> <br />The Denver metropolitan area is grmving so rapidly that it <br />is ~lmost impossible to keep up vdth the increasing demands being <br />placed on the Denver Municipal ~ater System. The vmter necessary <br />to meet the continuing grmvth of Denver must come from tributaries <br />of the Colorado River, other potential sources having been exhausted <br />years ago. It is therefore essential to Denver's welfare that a <br />development of the Colorado rtiver of the proportions contemplated <br />in the Colorado River Storage Promect be SO designated as to <br />protect the Denver water supply. <br /> <br />No steps should be taken to authorize or develop the Colorado <br />River Storage Project until it has been integrated by Region VII of <br />the Bureau .vith projects design~d esp~cially for the dev~lopment of <br />Colorado in order that: <br /> <br />(a) One portion of the upper stream system .lill not <br />be so developed as to preclude the reasonable <br />development of oth~r portions of the upper <br />stream system. <br /> <br />(b) Upstream storage necessary to the development <br />of Colorado projects on both the eastern and <br />western slope may be protected with priorities <br />higher than those awarded the units of the <br />Colorado River Sto~age Project. <br /> <br />The project should not be approved until administrative pro- <br />cedures have been made explicit which .lill insure the benefits for <br />which the project is said to be designed. <br /> <br />If the Colorado River Storage Project is to proceed ,vithout <br />integration .dth Colorado development, authorization of the project <br />should not occur until an equitable portion of its capacity has been <br />provided to assure a continued supply of ,vater to Denver on its <br />Colorado River priorities. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Since the Colcrado iiiver StorBge Project is designed to ear- <br />mark funds of the United Soates Government for the development of <br />useful water projects out of the Colorado River, no authorization <br />or appropriation for the project should be made until definite pro- <br />vision has been made to subsidize the Colorado-Big Thompson Project <br />from the Colorado River Storage Project to whatever extent the <br />Colorado-Big Thompson Project is subsidized by Green Mountain <br />