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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br />MR. SPARKS: <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />13<:b <br /> <br />for oil shale in the West Divide Project <br />so I thought it would be proper for this <br />Board to make a formal request to the <br />Bureau of Reclamation to include studies for <br />municipal uses and possibly direct indus- <br />trial uses for the West Divide Project and <br />possibly the other potential projects in <br />Colorado in the Yampa-White Basin. <br /> <br />Mr. Larson's, as I recall, statement <br />said that the Bureau wanted guidance from <br />this Board as to when we thought we would <br />need water for oil shale and where we wanted <br />to get it. The West Divide Project would be <br />an ideal project to provide some water for <br />the municipal communities which will spring <br />up along the Colorado River between Glenwood <br />Springs and DeBeque and I thought that we <br />should specifically request the Bureau to <br />include study and possibly even set a tar- <br />get date." <br /> <br />"Larry, would you like to answer this?" <br /> <br />"I think that is an appropriate sugges- <br />tion. We've talked a lot about shale oil <br />and a good deal of research has been done <br />on it. I think it would certainly be appro- <br />priate for this Board to specifically re- <br />quest the Bureau of Reclamation to consider <br />a shale oil supply in all their planning in <br />the Western Slope projects. In that particu- <br />lar area we would have to give some specific <br />direction and to do that, we are going to <br />have to have help from shale oil specialists <br />from the private companies, which, I am sure, <br />they will be willing to give. We have not <br />done anything about it to date but I think <br />we should immediately request the Bureau to <br />undertake such studies and that we should <br />immediately undertake to define the limits <br />of those studies. I think we can do that <br />without any particular appropriation of <br />money and I think we can get the help from <br />private industry." <br /> <br />"I-read in the paper about this atomic <br />blast business and the reaction on the shale <br />oil industry. Is that moving the target <br />date up for your report? You speak about <br />a target date and I just wondered what you <br />had in mind." <br />