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<br />Between those extremes, the board has to accomplish a delicate <br />balancing act to attempt to insure that,. as nearly as possible., we can <br />accommodate the various conflicting demands to a reasonable degree. <br /> <br />To that end, we have done a considerable amount of study on the recom- <br />mendations contained on this page. relating to the two.appropriations <br />in Rio Blanco County. .. <br /> <br />The original recommendation of the Division of Wildlife in the lower <br />stretch, that is, from the second appropriation there from Lost Creek <br />to Marvine Creek, was 90 second-feet. Finally; after considerable: <br />s.tudy, it was: reduced to 80 second-feet, not because 90 second feet is: <br />not a reasonable. requirement for the fishery there,. but in an attempt <br />to accommodate the competing demands. A problem is still occasioned <br />by about a mile and a half of the stream. In that mile-and-a-half <br />stretch, there is a proposed diversion for the Yellow Jacket, a project <br />authorized for feasibility study by the Congress. That project is : <br />designed to furnish both irrigation and municipal and industrial water. <br />If the energy development actually occurs: in the Rio Blanco.County, as <br />it is almost certain to do at some time in the future, .thenit is <br />critical that we. plan future water supplies for that county.: It is. <br />that mile-and-a-half stretch that is critical in this particular case, <br />because it involves the diversion point of the proposed Yellow Jacket <br />Project. <br /> <br />In. order to resolve. that problem, we had a meeting early this morning <br />with people from Rio Blanco County and the Division of Wildlife. <br />Based upon that.conference, which satisfied no one in total, it is my <br />recommendation that the appropriation be changed to show that the <br />appropriation would be 70 second-feet from Ripple Creek down to the <br />confluence with Marvine Creek. This, then, would reduce the:proposed <br />appropriation in that one-and-a-half miles of stream from 80 second- <br />feet set forth in the second recommendation to 70. <br /> <br />MR. KROEGER: Now, Mr. Cooley, do you have comments? <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. COOLEY:. Well, only one, Mr. Kroeger, and that is that Yellow <br />Jacket would support the staff's recommendation, and would wish at . <br />this time to acknowledge. two things on behalf of the Division of I <br />Wildlife, and those are: first, the good-faith efforts in trying to <br />reach the figures that it recommended based on.scientificcriteria; <br />and, second, their good-faith efforts. to achieve a result that would <br />be in the best interest of the state of Colorado overall. <br /> <br />MR. KROEGER: Don:'t you, .as the Yellow Jacket project, also have a <br />filing on sufficient water so that there need not be a shortage. _. <br />Don't you. have a conditional decree for your project at this poi~t? <br /> <br />"'18'" <br />