BOARD01914

• Board Meeting Date: 12/4/1974
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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initiation of feasibility investigations.

c. Power marketing studies have begun. Input from
public meetings and resource inventory studies will
provide feasibility data leading to a plan of develop-
ment by the end of fiscal 1975.

5. Yellow Jacket Protill

a. A new feasibility investigation under current
principles and standards is now underway.

(1) Investi?ation has new urgency because of the
project s possible role in providing water for
energy development, particularly for the nearby
oil shale reserves.

(2) Consideration will continue to be given to
possibilities for irrigation" development, pres-
ervation of the environment, development of
recreational opportunities, and preservation
of fish and wildlife values.

(3) The new investigation will have as a valuable
base the work already accomplished under tra-
ditional methods of evaluation and reported
in the proposed feasibility reports of October
1968 and April 1972.

b. Work to be accomplished in FY 1975 will utilize
$75,000 of FY 1974 carryover funds.

c. With the organization of a MOP team, public hearings,
and resource inventories, a plan of development can
probably be proposed about a year from now.

6. Colorado River Water Quality Improvement Pro~ram

a. Initial investigations for the ten year Colorado
River water quality improvement program began in
FY 1972.

(1)

Authority: Colorado River Project and Participating
Projects Act (PL 84-485). Navajo Indian Irriga-
tion Project, San Juan-Chama Project Act (PL 87-
483) and the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Act
(PL 87-590)

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Objective of investigation to determine best
methods to prevent entry or remove total
dissolved salts from the river system

(3) Included in initial program in Colorado were
following projects: Paradox Valley,

(2)

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