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<br /> <br />. <br /> <br />FOREHORD <br /> <br />This report presents the results of feasibility studies and analyses <br />of the Fruitland Mesa project in the Gunnison River Basin in west-central <br />Colorado. The project is one of 25 potential projects in the Upper Colo- <br />rado River Basin that '~re given priority in the completion of planning <br />reports by the Colorado River Storage Project Act of April 11, 1956 (70 <br />Stat. 105). The Fruitland Mesa project has been planned and analyzed as <br />a future paxt:i.ci-pating: -project of the Colorado River Storage project. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The Bureau of Reclamation first reported on the Fruitland Mesa proj- <br />ect in its basin-wide inventory of March 1946, entitled The Colorado River. <br />Results of a reconnaissance investigation of the project and other poten- <br />tial projects in the Gunnison River Basin '~re included in a report of <br />February 1951 on the Gunnison River project. The project plan is still <br />basically the same as shown in these early reports although some refine- <br />ments have been made as a result of the more detailed feasibility studies. <br /> <br />Authority to make this report is provided in the Federal reclamation <br />laws (act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and acts amendatory thereof or <br />supplementary thereto). <br /> <br />. <br />