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<br />- 12 - <br /> <br />CRSP. They should be in separate legislation after <br />long-standing negotiations among the Department of the <br />Interior, the Ute Tribe, and Utah settle a number of <br />issues involving water for Indian lands, etc. <br /> <br />Section 19 (h) directs the National Academy of Sciences <br />and the U.S. Comptroller General to conduct a very compre- <br />hensive study of the storage, hydroelectric generating and <br />distribution facilities, and Colorado River operations. <br /> <br />(1) Obviously this is an effort to spend <br />many millions of dollars on an Upper Basin-wide EIS <br />on operations of the river in order to justify changes <br />in the purposes and operation of the CRSP dams and <br />reservoirs. <br /> <br />(2) The amount of money and its source for <br />such a study does not seem to be specified but it prob- <br />ably would involve many millions of dollars from the <br />excess revenues of the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund. <br />The parameters for such a study as this should emanate <br />from negotiations and agreement of all four Upper Basin <br />States. <br /> <br />Section 20 would affect project construction in all four <br />of the Upper Basin States because it would require that <br />appropriations for construction and mitigation of fish and <br />wildlife values be made concurrently according to a schedule <br />that would be written by an unknown entity in a report to <br />accompany H.R. 3408. <br /> <br />2258 <br />