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711 I Preliminary water supply studies have been completed which indicate that not all of the potential land areas can be served by the project. Completion of a feasibility report is scheduled for the spring of 1959. Yampa-White Project Since my last meeting with the Board, the Yampa-White reconnaissance report was completed. Copies of the report have been furnished to Mr. Crawford who has distributed the report to interested parties. This project was discussed. particular- ly the Yellow Jacket Unit by representatives of the Bureau at the White River Soil Conservation District annual meeting at Meeker on March 22. San Miquel Project Plans for the development of the San Miguel Project were outlined in a status report prepared by the Bureau in 1953. Recently considerable interest in the project by local water users has developed. Our present program provides for initiating feasibility investigations in fiscal year 1959. Investigations for the San Miguel project cannot be undertaken until reports for the higher priority projects--Pine River Ex- tension, Florida, Dolores,. ahd Animas-La Plata--are completed. Savery-Pot Hook A preliminary draft of a feasibility report was com- pleted in July 1954 and circulated to the States of Wyoming and Colorado. On February 7, 1957, another meeting was held in Baggs, Wyoming, at which time the possibility of an independent development of the Wyoming or Savery unit of the project was discussed. The Colorado Water Users, by vote, favored the Bureau proceeding with its report on the present plan, The Wyoming users, however, voted to organize an irrigation dis- trict, and then study the possibility of Wyoming building the Savery, or Wyoming unit, separately. If their studies shbw this cannot be done, they may then join Colorado in going for- ward under the Bureau plan. I I understand that a local committee has been organ- ized to establish the Savery-Pot Hook Water Conservancy Dis- trict in Moffatt County, Colorado. Bostwick Park Project Land classification and drainage surveys were essen- tially completed last month. Work is being continued on water supply and plan formulation studies. A feasibility report is scheduled for completion in early 1958.