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<br />to start off this presentation by discussing energy in Colorado. What <br />Jake has is a map of northwestern and central, west central Colorado, <br />and if you are ready Jake, we can go ahead and explain this. <br /> <br />~tr. Rinckel: Fine. Members of the board, ladies and gentlemen, first I <br />is the map of northwestern Colorado. v~jor tributaries shown on the <br />map are first the Little Sn~~e River, the Yampa River to the junction <br />with the Green, the White River to Rangely and Meeker and the Colorado <br />River to Grand Junction. The towns located on the map starting at the <br />top are: Baggs, Maybell, Craig, Meeker, Rangely, Rifle, DeBeque and <br />Grand Junction. In yellow on the map are authorized and potential <br />projects that the Bureau of Reclamation is presently studying or has <br />studied in some form. First of all, the Savery-Pot Hook project on <br />the northern boundary which covers both Wyoming and Colorado is an <br />authorized project. Dropping down to the Lower Yampa located in the <br />Craig-Maybell area, we presently have studies under way on this proj- <br />ect. We will cover those in more detail later. <br /> <br />The Yellow Jacket is in the vicinity of Meeker. We completed a pro~ <br />posed regional director's report in 1972. And the West Divide project <br />is also an authorized project, authorized in 1968. <br /> <br />These maps illustrate the wealth of natural resources within this <br />particular area. We are right on top of not only oil shale and coal, <br />but there are other resources also besides these. <br /> <br />These two overlays illustrate the vast coal and oil shale deposits of <br />the area. Putting both of them together, you can see that almost all <br />of the entire area is covered by some natural resource deposit, which <br />is a natural beginning for our studies of the Lower Yampa and Savery- <br />Pot Hook projects. <br /> <br />Mr. Wiscomhe: Thank you, Jake. <br /> <br />With the coming of the oil shale industry, the demand for power and <br />water is increasing daily in northwestern and west central Colorado. <br />Large amounts of both are going to be required in order to develop the <br />oil shale industry to its full potential. It is estimated that the I <br />electrical requirements necessary for a one million barrel per day oil <br />shale industry will require approximately two million kilowatts of <br />generating capacity. The Final Environmental Statement for the Proto- <br />type Oil Shale Leasing Program of 1973 states that, depending on the <br />refining process, between 121,000 and l89,000 acre-feet of water will <br />be needed annually to maintain a million barrel per day oil shale <br />industry. <br /> <br />-22- <br />