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I functions and the storage capacity require- ments in that reservoir with our expanded study which, as you know, includes an upper reservoir at possibly the Two Forks site. So as soon as our studies are advanced far enough to reach a firm conclusion of What we will need in Narrows Reservoir then it would be possible to move that ahead to construction and pick up the other developments in the Basin at a later date. In other words, we don't need to delay one part of it for completion of the whole study. We certainly appreciate the assistance of the state in our work on the Narrows Unit and I am sure that your con tribution will aid materially in advancing the completion date of this study. We might note in passing that we are just completing a rather comprehensive land use study in the South Platte Basin. We started that originally to pick up the changes in irri- gated land here near the metropolitan area but we have extended that to the full Basin, for two or three reasons. We wanted to know just which ~ands were irrigated at the present time, what the changes had been in other areas besides in the vicinity of Denver, and we wanted a little firmer information as to which lands were served by which ditches. If any of you are acquainted with the ditch system in the Platte Valley you can understand why we need that information in order to make a com- prehensive study. I OUr work on the Cache la Poudre has been delayed. We have no funds to start that until the appropriation bill has been passed and we hope that that's going to be cleared very shortly. In the meantime we have been working with the water users in the Cache la poudre area. As you recall, they appointed a steer- ing committee to work with us and the steering committee in turn has been working very closely with the Cache la poudre Water Users A$socia- tion which now represents all of the water