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<br />Mr. Stapleton: All right, now we will call on Mr. Fischer. <br /> <br />Mr. Fischer: Mr. Chairman, the 120 million barrel number did come out <br />of my office. It was prepared originally for last year's hearings for <br />the House and Senate Public Works subcommittees. The 120 million barrels <br />is arrived at as follows. First of all, in West Divide it has been I <br />generally published that the project is going to include 77,500 acre- <br />feet a year of municipal and industrial water. On the municipal require- <br />ments side, I used four people per acre-foot. Coming back into my <br />memory now, on the industrial side, I used a consumptive requirement <br />figure, and l1r. Chairman, I would like to reserve the opportunity to <br />review my notes which are in Glenwood Springs. <br /> <br />i1r. Stapleton: That is always helpful. <br /> <br />~rr. Fischer: Yes, sir. <br /> <br />Mr. Kuiper: We will wait for you. <br /> <br />Mr. Fischer: I find this sometimes helpful on the stand. But 8,000 <br />acre-feet of water per year would be totally consumed for the production <br />of 50,000 acre-feet of crude shale oil. And it is that way that I <br />arrived at production of l20 million barrels of crude shale oil per year <br />on a 360-day basis, and I would have to look back and see how many <br />barrels per day that is. I think it is three hundred and some thousand, <br />but I am not just sure. That is the calculation method that I used to <br />arrive at that number. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: No recycling at all? <br /> <br />Mr. Fischer: Correct. No recycling in that figure at all. The question <br />I think will ultimately come, perhaps before this board or the district <br />board about the question of recycling. I think certainly that on the <br />Colorado River side we may not have as much opportunity to use ground <br />water. I think I may be optimistic about ground water resources on the <br />Colorado River side than some others, but I frankly must admit that just <br />not enough is known about ground water on the Colorado River side as <br />compared to the White River side. But anyway, this is the way I arrived <br />at l20 million barrels and it assumes municipal uses at the rate of four <br />people per acre-foot per year, and it assumes those figures for indus- <br />trial. This does include hydrogen upgrading. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />~rr. Stapleton: Now, can you tell me what the oil companies, or what the <br />research is, in terms of recycling? <br /> <br />-22~ <br />