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, ' . . , . Recreation facilities will include access roads, parking areas, boat launching facilities, campgrounds, picnic units, toilets, water supply, shelters, beach development, and an administrative area. Recreation facilities and lands will be developed and managed by the Colorado Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation under the provisions of Pub 1 i cLaw 89-72. The National Park Service's memorandums of February 17 and March 17, 1976, and the Colorado Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation's letter of February ~5, 1976, are appended to this report. Land Acquistion Requirements Land acquistion requirements for Narrows Dam and Reservoir, as initially proposed in the 1967 feasibility report and the 1973 DPR, deviated from established interagency land acquisition policy. These deviations were based upon judgmental decisions stemming from the nature of the reservoir site and its plains location. Criteria for land acquisition reflected in the 1967 feasibility report and the 1973 DPR were primarily for the acquisition of lands in fee title to the top of the joint-use pool including lands needed for permanent structures and for additional lands needed specifically for recreation and fish and wildlife purposes. Easements would have been obtained for the remaining lands to the top of the flood control pool. No easements would have been obtained on lands within the surcharge pool. Current. criteria call for acquisition in fee title of all lands below the top of the flood control pool of the reservoir and additional lands needed specifically for recreation and fish and wildlife purposes. Lands within the surcharge pool outside the acquisition line will remain in private ownership and damages will be paid only upon actual flooding and receipt of landowners' claims for damages from such flooding. Following is a comparison of proposed land acquisition by anticipated uses at the time of authorization and the 1973 DPR and for the current plan: 9