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<br />001556 <br /> <br />(b) In the Fryingpan River Basin for the proposed <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />Fryingpan-Arkansas Project in the amount of approximately <br /> <br />f <br /> <br />70,000 acre-feet; and <br />(c) In the Gunnison River Basin with an upper limit of <br /> <br />some 500,000 acre-feet. <br /> <br />The Report estimates the cost of bringing water to the pro- <br /> <br /> <br />posed Blue-South Platte Project at a cost of approximately Jl,OOO <br /> <br />per acre. (This Report was rendered before the settlement between <br /> <br />Denver and the United States Government of claims to water in the <br /> <br />Blue River drainage. Under that agreement the waters of the <br />Blue River go to Denver and are not to be used for irrigation <br />of farm lands.) <br /> <br />The cost allocated to irrigation in the Fryingpan-Arkansas <br /> <br /> <br />Project is about $480 per acre when computed on a basis of <br /> <br />114,500 acres to be benefited by this supplemental water. (The <br /> <br />sponsor of the project and the Bureau of Reclamation claim the <br /> <br />- <br />acreage should be 310,000~and the resulting cost on this basis <br /> <br /> <br />would be ~180.) A transmountain diversion from the headwaters <br /> <br />of the Gunnison River to the Eastern Slope would cost between <br /> <br />$1,250 and $2,500 per acre. <br /> <br />3. In considering the water supplies of the Western Slope, <br /> <br /> <br />the Report gives consideration to a supply for the development <br /> <br />of the oil shale industry. <br />4. This Report brings out clearly that, founded upon the <br /> <br />only supporting data available, i.e., studies of the Bureau of <br /> <br />-4- <br />