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<br />, <br />, <br />. <br /> <br />C:J <br />, ') <br /> <br />Revised 6/22/82 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />, \: <br />..., <br />(~~ ) <br />C:.:' <br /> <br />CONCEPT PAPER <br /> <br />StlBJEX:T: <br /> <br />A pipeline unique to the Colorado River drainage area for <br /> <br />transporting coal contained in disposable plastic capsules and <br /> <br />thus completely separated from the saline water medium used to <br /> <br />obtain neutral buoyancy of the coal container. <br /> <br />The Salinity Control Forum has grappled for many years wi th the <br /> <br />problems of excessive total dissolved solids in the Colorado River, and we in the <br /> <br />coal industry have been struggling to remain competitive in the face of rapidly <br /> <br />escalating rail rates. I would like to offer you an idea that we at W. R. Grace & <br /> <br />Co. are working on that could partially solve both of these problems. <br /> <br />An unusual opportunity exists in the Colorado River basin for <br /> <br />transporting coal via pipeline to the Pacific Coast and in the process dispoSing <br /> <br />of some of the Colorado River I s total dissolved solids problem. The project <br /> <br />envisions the cooperation of Federal, State, local, public, and industr ial <br /> <br />entities to remove about 10% of the salts currently entering the Colorado River <br /> <br />and to pass this saline water through a pipeline to the Pacific Ocean. We feel <br /> <br />the capital investment for the pipeline could be obtained from private sources <br /> <br />based on federal payments for removal of salts from the Colorado River and <br /> <br />transportation fees for encapsulated coal to market. <br /> <br />A 30 to 36-inch diameter pipeline would be constructed from a point <br /> <br />near Axial, Colorado, to a point yet to be ascertained on the California Pacific <br /> <br />Coast, a distance of about 1.000 plus miles. Coal mined in Colorado 'would feed <br /> <br />the pipeline with up to 15 to 20 million tons per year. Fresh water owned by <br /> <br />-1- <br /> <br />-~------- <br />