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reformulating the five participating projects which have been authorized for construction and three additional west slope projects which are in various stages of study (Yellow Jacket on the White River, Dominguez on the Gunnison River, and Grand Mesa on the North Fork of the Gunnison River). The resulting report, which was strictly a "quick and dirty" effort, was published in August, 1980. Of the eight projects, it was found that no significant opportunity existed to add an energy component to a project, or increase that already planned for, except in the case of the West Divide and Savory-Pothook. projects. This is because three of the projects simply are not located in areas where large, water consuming energy development will occur (San Miguel. Fruitland Mesa, and Grand Mesa), while the other three have ~~ready been fOrmulated to include every conceivable energy demand (Animas-LaPlata, Dominguez, which is a hydropower peaking unit, and Yellow Jacket). The BjC ratios of the former three remain well below 1.0, while the ratios for the latter three are 1.2, 1.0, and 1.2, respectively. With respect to the West Divide and Savory-Pothook projects, it was determined that each project could develop more ,qater for the energy industry, thereby increasing the BjC ratio for each project to greater than 1.0. However, this was accomplished for the Savory-pothook project by assuming that better than half of the project's originally planned for irriga- tion water supply would be reallocated to energy. More im- portantly, even though the overall BjC ratio for each project exceeded 1.0, the separable irrigation components of both projects failed the tests of economic feasibility -4-