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<br />r",O'8 I <br />UU~J ~i l <br /> <br />-15- <br /> <br />has long been under investigation. Colorad0 urges that these <br />investigations be expedited in order that the projeot may be <br />oonsidered i'or oonstruotion. <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />(r) Silt Projeot. This projeot is looated near Rii'le, <br />Colorado, and will stc;,r.; water diverted i'ram Rifle Creek to make <br />available supplemental water supplies for presently irrigated <br />lands. The projeot has lsng been under investigation and some <br />preliminary reports have been issued thereon. A final report is <br />in the prooess of preparation and is soheduled for early oonsider- <br />atio:'l by the office of the Regional Direotor, Region 4, Bureau of <br />Reclt1.;n..tion. Colorado requests t hat the soheduled issuanoe of this <br />repol"t be followed and that the projeot may be oonsidered for oon- <br />struction. <br /> <br />() <br /> <br />,) <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />(g) Collbran Projeot, This projeot is looated near Grand <br />Junction, Colorado. It has been under investigation for many <br />years. Originally this proposed development was for the irrigation <br />of lands, now under oultivation with inadequate water supplies, <br />looated in the Plateau Valley. In reoent months a revised plan <br />for this projeot to also provide munioipal water supplies for the <br />City of Grand Junotion and vioinity, and to afford an inoidental <br />produotion of pawer, has been under investigation by the Bureau <br />of Reolamation. It has been found neoessary to expedite this <br />investigation due to the population growth in Grand Junotion and <br />the reoognition of the desirability of providing stook and domestio <br />water supplies for the area in the vicinity of Grand Junotion. <br />It is now indioated that the present souroe of munioi'pal water for <br />Grand Junction will be adequate for a period of only about three <br />years, and that water for thi. purpose mu.t be obtained from other <br />SOuroes within that tim~. Upon the basis of present data and infor- <br />mation it eoems highly probable that this projeot may be eoonomi- <br />oally justified under the provision" of the 1939 Reolarnation Aot. <br />Beoause of this urgent need for domestio water supplies, as well <br />as the desirability of providing supplemental supplies for irri. <br />gation of lands in Plateau Valley, Colorado urges that the investi- <br />ge.tion on this projeot be oompleted and a report issued early this <br />year in order that the projeot may be oonsidered for oonstruotion. <br /> <br />~' <br />ie <br />~\' . <br />, <br />~' , <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />(h) Little Snake Development. The Little Snake River, a <br />tributary of-the Colorado River, orosses and reorosses the Colorado- <br />Wyoming boundary line. For a number of years the Bureau of Reola. <br />mation has oonduoted investigations oonoerning the so-oalled ulti- <br />mate development of the Little Snake River, inoluding exportations <br />fram and importations to the Little Snake River Basin, and inoluding <br />the proposed oonstruotion in the near future of a relatively small <br />.projeot to serve lands in Colorado and Wyoming requiring supple- <br />mental water supplies for dependable irrigation, and to irrigate <br />some new lands in both states. Two small reservoir projeots, one <br />