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<br />001306 <br /> <br />northwestern Colorado coal resources. <br /> <br /> <br />Certainly, an informed Congress is entitled to an <br /> <br /> <br />unbiased, comprehensive report from an agency of the United <br /> <br /> <br />States. The Draft documents, for the reasons heretofore and <br /> <br /> <br />hereinafter expressed and as will be expressed by others, <br /> <br /> <br />are wholly insufficient to form an acceptable basis for <br /> <br /> <br />later Final documents and recowmendations. <br /> <br /> <br />Though not all inclusive and duplicative, in part, and <br /> <br /> <br />not intended to be exclusive of the foregoing, such a new <br /> <br /> <br />Draft study and impact statement must consider, weigh and <br /> <br /> <br />report, wi.th relation to the proposal,on the following: <br /> <br /> <br />1) The cost to the United States of acquiring <br /> <br /> <br />private water rights on the Yampa River which will be impaired <br /> <br /> <br />or reduced in value by the proposed designation of the Yampa <br /> <br /> <br />River as wild. The water rights of the River District for <br /> <br /> <br />the proposed Juniper-Cross Mountain Project, as well as the <br /> <br /> <br />water rights of a great number of other parties in the Yampa <br /> <br /> <br />River basin (many of which ,vere set out in the September 28, <br /> <br /> <br />1976, response of the River District) are vested water rights <br /> <br /> <br />entitled to the protection of the due process clauses of the <br /> <br /> <br />United States and the Colorado Constitutions and are specifically <br /> <br /> <br />protected by the Wild and Scenic River Act itself. The same <br /> <br /> <br />cannot be taken by the actions of the United States without <br /> <br />-9- <br />