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. TRANSMITI'AL provided for various types iug and camping. Damaging reduced. of aquatic sports and for lake shore picnick- spring flows of the San Miguel River would be Main storage for the San Miguel project would be provided in the potential Saltado Reservoir on the San Miguel River. Water for exist- ing rights, part of the project water for municipal and industrial uses, and flows for the maintenance of the river fishery would be released directly to the river from the reservoir. The remainder of the project water would be released at the Saltado Dam into the potential Norwood Canal in which it would be conveyed to a system of other canals and lat- erals by which it would be distributed for irrigation, municipal and industrial use, and use at the planned Radium fish and wildlife area. The Naturita and Radium Reservoirs would be constructed in the project land area to stabilize the diverted flows. Existing reservoirs and dis- tribution systems of private irrigation companies would be integrated in the project irrigation system and exchanges effected between project and existing water supplies to obtain optimum use of the available supplies. . The Norwood Canal would include long tunnel sections to pierce the walls of the deep gorge in which the San Miguel River lies as well as numerous siphons across deep canyons of the river's tributary streams. These structures would be the only practical means by which the river water could be made available to the project lands and to other uses on the llEsas above the river, but they would be costly, representing nearly one-third of the total project cost. The San Miguel Water Conservancy District would serve as the gen- eral administrative and contracting agency for the project reclamation and joint use facilities. A State, county, or local agency is expected to assume responsibility for operation of the recreational developments. Responsibility for fish and wiLdlife developments, including the Radium fish and wildlife area, is expected to be assumed by the Colorado Depart- ment of Game, Fish, and Parks. In accordance with the Federal Water Project Recreation Act of July 9, 1965 (P.L. 89-72), inclusion of recre- ation and fish and wildlife enhancement in the project is contingent on agreements by non-Federal interests to administer the project land and water areas for these purposes and to bear an assigned portion of the costs. Governor John A. Love has expressed the intention of Colorado to assume such responsibilities as required by the legislation. Stream Depletion The San Miguel project would deplete the flow of the Colorado River by an average of 85,000 acre-feet annually. This depletion would be within the apportionment of water made to Colorado by the Upper Colorado River . 2