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<br />o <br />.- .") <br />~ year would be 60,165 acre-feet. Depletions in 1985 are <br />f\.,) <br />(..;> estimated to be 740 acre-feet, 8.600 acre-feet in 1990. and <br />00 <br />27.136 acre-feet by 2010. Depletion figures were reduced <br /> <br />by approximately 3.600 acre-feet to reflect the hoped for <br /> <br />approval of the proposed recovery plan for threatened and <br /> <br />endangered species, <br /> <br />y. Blue ~esa Contracts <br /> <br />The Upper Colorado Regional Office of the Bureau of <br /> <br />Reclamation has determined that up to 10.000 acre-feet of <br /> <br />water can be contracted for out of Blue Mesa Reservoir for <br /> <br />indus~rial purposes. It has been assumed that this water <br /> <br />will be contracted by 1990 and that it will be 100 percent <br /> <br />, <br />consumed. <br /> <br />z. oil Shale <br /> <br />Values shown through 2020 were provided by the Colorado <br /> <br /> <br />Water Conservation Board. These values do not include <br /> <br />water contracted out of Ruedi Reservoir for the oil shale <br /> <br />industty, Presently, development of the oil shale industry <br />in Colorado has come to a virtual standstill with only <br />minor activity continuing on the Union Project. 'fhe Denver <br /> <br />EIS considered 132,900 AF of depletions out of the 175.000 <br />AF ori9inally projected by the oil company's in various <br /> <br />EIS's for specific projects at maximum production, <br /> <br />-19- <br />