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<br />DRAFT <br /> <br />CBT Project. <br /> <br />Negotiations were then able to move to more <br /> <br />specific concerns. An agreement was reached regarding "Manner of <br /> <br />Operation of project Facilities" which incorporated a number of <br /> <br />protective conditions. Congressional authorization of the CBT <br />, <br />I <br />project in 1937 spelled out this agreemen\: in Senate Document <br />80.58 <br /> <br />The CBT project was expected to divert about 320,000 acre- <br /> <br />feet per year. <br /> <br />As part of <br /> <br />the project the proponents agreed to <br /> <br />. I.d d d <br />ReserVOIr to proYI e water nee e to <br />! <br />The reservoir, capacity of 152,000 <br /> <br />build <br /> <br />the Green Mountain <br /> <br />protect West Slope interests. <br /> <br />acre-feet was to be utilized to replace any out-of-priority <br />diversions required for the CBT (52,000 iacre-feet) and to <br />, <br /> <br />generate power and supply other benefici1al uses in western <br />I <br />I <br />Colorado (100,000 acre feet) .59 The purposes to be achieved by <br />I <br /> <br />operations of the Green Mountain Reservoir are: <br /> <br />1. To preserve the vested and future rights [of the West <br />Slope] in irrigation. <br /> <br />2. To preserve the fishing and recreational facilities and <br />the scenic attractions of Grand Lake, the Colorado River, <br />and the Rocky Mountain National Park. <br /> <br />3. TO preserve the present surface elevations of the water <br />in Grand. Lake and to prevent a variation in these elevations <br />greater than their normal fluctuation. <br /> <br />5875th Cong., 1st Sess. (1937). <br /> <br />59As is often the ease in such situations, much of the <br />concern of the West Slope representatives arose out of uncertain- <br />ty about the impacts of the proposed diversion. Protective <br />stipulations satisfactory to all concerned were able to be <br />developed once the needs were bet ter under stood. For a deser ip- <br />tion of the specific issues, see, Dille, A Brief History of the <br />Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District and The Colorado-Big <br />Thompson project (1958), esp. pp. 15-16. <br /> <br />25 <br />