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<br />0013\)7 <br /> <br />compensation. <br /> <br /> <br />2) The regional and national importance of the <br /> <br /> <br />coal, oil shale and other minerals of the area, the produc.tion <br /> <br /> <br />and utilization of which is dependent upon the use of the. <br /> <br /> <br />naturally occurring water in the area. <br /> <br /> <br />3) The regional and national importance of the <br /> <br /> <br />pOllution-free hydroelectric energy potential (recognized <br /> <br /> <br />since the first power site reservation in the area in 1910) <br /> <br /> <br />which can be realized from appropriate facilities on the <br /> <br /> <br />Yampa River upstream from Dinosaur National Monument. <br /> <br /> <br />4) The benefits obtained from and obligations <br /> <br /> <br />imposed on the State of. Colorado under and by virtue of the <br /> <br /> <br />Colorado River Compact of 1922, the Mexican Treaty of 1944, <br /> <br /> <br />and the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact of 1948, likewise <br /> <br /> <br />protected by the involved Act from any interference. <br /> <br /> <br />S) The reserved water rights of the United States, <br /> <br /> <br />if any, for Dinosaur National Monument, and their priority <br /> <br /> <br />relationship to other vested water rights in the Yampa River <br /> <br /> <br />Basin. It may \~ell be that such are insufficient to justify <br /> <br /> <br />proceeding further. <br /> <br /> <br />6) The proclamation, Executive Order, or other <br /> <br /> <br />limit~tions of use and purpose in the establishment of <br /> <br /> <br />Dinosaur National Monument. <br /> <br />-10- <br />