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<br />t:""":' <br />~ <br />u'"' <br />- <br /> <br />" <br />~ <br /> <br />retter power pot:entials j'han the White. Moreover, r"I\;['e develop- <br /> <br />c <br /> <br />ment of the Yellow Jacket i.rrigation project and poss [hI" ,'ut.ure <br /> <br />indl1strial development may use a large part of the \,;I:i" over <br /> <br />flows. <br /> <br />Potenti.al development on the Yampa and White Rivers was <br /> <br />summarized by the Department of the Interior in the Colorado River <br /> <br />Basin report dated July 1947. This was largely an inventory report <br /> <br />and did not propose a plan of development. <br /> <br />The Colorado River storage project act of April 11, 1956, <br /> <br />included the Juniper Project as a participating project by directing <br /> <br />the Secretary of the Interior to concurrently investigate Juniper, <br /> <br />along with other participating projects, and to "give priority to <br /> <br />completion of a planning report." <br /> <br />A reconnaissance report by the Bureau of Reclamation on the <br /> <br />Yampa-White, dated February 1957, tentatively appraised a favorable <br /> <br />single-purpose .Juniper irrigation project for use in fut.ul',; st.udies <br /> <br />of hydroelectric power and ot~er purposes. <br />