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<br />-'-ODIJI-H- -- <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR <br /> <br />DEPART:\IEST Ufo' THE Ir-;TEHIOR, <br />OFFICE Of' THE SECRETARY, <br />Wa"hinlllon, UC" Jane 8, 1970. <br /> <br />The PRESIDE:-;T, <br />The While lion",e, <br />W<Ulhillllton, D.C, <br />(Through the Burcll.n of the Budget.) <br />DEAH ~IH, 1'ItESIDEr<T: On AUg'lIst 19. 1965, tIll' Secretary of tho <br />Interior submitted his feasibility report of .lUll{' 21, 1965. on the Closed <br />Btl-sin division, San Luis Ynllcy project, Colorndo. u multiple-purpose <br />WlltPf resource development in southeastern COIOflldo. The report <br />proposf'd the ill~tldllltion of shallow \n~lIs, pumps, unci U t'ollectioIl and <br />l'OIl'"eYiHlCC system to slllnlgc wall'f now nonbelwficiuIIy consumed <br />in the Closed Basill. <br />Purt of tlw salnl~(~d wuter would be supplied to the f'xisting Alnmosn <br />.xatiollnl \Yildlife I{pfugl' llud tlH' rPlllainiug wat.er would be used to <br />reduee the debit of Colorado ullder the terms of the Rio Grande Com- <br />pnct.. The plulI also provided for the dt'\.elopmellt of the proposed <br />~Iishllk Lakes Xlitiollnl \Vildlife Rt.fug-e. Its wliter rcquir(,llIents would <br />he met, by the nat.tlrnl inflow into the rpfuge. The proposed develop- <br />ment nlso would prodell' ot.her substantial recreation nnll fish llnd <br />wildlife benefits. The net. t.~ffe('t of this netion, Us further discussed <br />herein, would he to promote the gelH'ral weIfnre. maint.ain conditions <br />under which Illllll lluLl Iltltur(' CUll exist in productive harmony, and <br />nssist. in fulfilling the ~ocioeconomic requirpments of present und <br />future genC'rations. <br />By letter dated August 6, }966, copy enclosed, the Deputy Director <br />of the Bureau of the Budget noted that. the report. proposed that tlw <br />costs nllocnt('(l to watpr sah.agp be made nonreimbursable. He stated <br />thut. tlw Burt'au of th(' Budgt't woul(l not favor authorization of the <br />Oh-ision with thut proposlllllnd requ('stC'd that, should the report be <br />transmitted to the Congress, its views be included ill t.he letter of <br />trllllsmittnl. The r('port wus not- trnllsmitt('d to tlw COJlgr~s~. <br />SinN' t,hnt- tinH't llwf(~ huv(' bt'('!l change:; in the gllirlplines used in <br />plnn formulntion Hnd ('conomie cyuhmtion of FedernI water resource <br />proj(~'t5, The plan of fh,\"t'lopnlC'llt for the Division has been reevalu- <br />ated using current guidelines. The principnl chun~cs afr('ctin~ the <br />~Tunp }965 report incllldp IUl enlllrgl>llwnt of tlH' proposed :\lishuk <br />~1l.tiOnlll "~ildlifl' Refuge Ilnt! provi5ion for enhallccnll'nt. ns well ns <br />for mitigation of wildlife. It r('c,'nlulltion of thp rNTPution benefits, <br />nn updating' of tlw COlhtrllctioll {'Ost (1stimfit(', nnd tIlt' use of tlw <br />current intf're'5t futl' of 4!~ Jlt'f('f'ut. Enclos('d is II {'opy of "Hecvulu- <br />at ion Stfitemrnt. Closed Bll~in DidsioI1, Sun Luis Vnllcy Proj(~ct, <br />Colorado," dated ~Iay 1970, which modifif>s tlw bnsie R('giolhd <br />Director's report of July 196:~ and, through this letter, the June 1965 <br />report. <br /> <br />(1) <br />