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<br />000823 <br /> <br />- 3 - <br /> <br />In 1957, an additional '77,000 vas appropriated for this <br /> <br /> <br />purpose. '150,000 has been requested from the assembly <br /> <br /> <br />which meets in January, 1958, To date, this procedure has <br /> <br /> <br />resulted in pushinq forward two projects, larqe ones, both. <br /> <br /> <br />Investiqation41 funds were hard to secure from the <br /> <br /> <br />last Conqress. The result - a slowinq down of the Bureau of <br /> <br /> <br />Reolamation's investiqations which is hard on Colorado because <br /> <br /> <br />we are a bit late anyway. For this reason, the request trom <br /> <br /> <br />the Assembly was increased for the F. Y. 1958-59 so that one <br /> <br /> <br />or two larqe projects, the Curecanti in particular, miqht be <br /> <br />pushed. <br /> <br />COOPERATION WITH STATE AND MUNICIPAL AGENCIES <br /> <br /> <br />Data reqardinq the econoaic potentials of the several <br /> <br /> <br />river basins is a necessity for intelliqent inteqrated planninq. <br /> <br /> <br />Thi. i. true in connection with water resource planninq and <br /> <br /> <br />dev.lopment. Economic survey. of the Denver area and the oil <br /> <br /> <br />shale area have brouqht into sharp relief the direction to be <br /> <br /> <br />followed in water planninq for tho.e localities. It is most <br /> <br /> <br />important to the successful operation of the Water Conservation <br /> <br /> <br />Board that such .urveys be carried out as soon as possible in <br /> <br /> <br />the Southeastern, mid-southern and southwestern parts of the <br /> <br /> <br />.tat.. <br />