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<br />N.! <br />, i <br />C~ <br />.....-j <br /> <br />r '. <br />-.-' <br /> <br />C) <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />In the project, W. R. Grace & Company will assume the lead role for developing <br />the innovative coal transport technology and formation of a consortium of private <br />interests for financing the non-Federal share, Hodel said. The Colorado River <br />Basin Salinity Control Forum, composed of representatives appointed by the <br />Governors of the seven Basin States (Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, <br />Colorado, and Wyoming), will address "water rights issues and other related concepts <br />that are a matter of State rather than Federal jurisdiction," Hodel said. <br /> <br />The Grace proposal was presented to Hodel, Reclamation, and other Interior <br />representatives during a meeting in Washington, D.C., on March 26. As proposed by <br />Grace, the aquatrain would consist of a 36-inch pipeline stretching from near Axial, <br />Colorado, to the California Pacific Coast, about 1,200 miles in distance. The <br />burnable, plastic capsules 30 inches by IS feet in size would carry between 3 and <br />4 tons of coal each. Up to IS million tons of coal mined and cleaned in Colorado <br />and Utah would feed the pipeline annually. <br /> <br />About 12,OOO acre-feet of fresh water, owned by W. R. Grace & Company, would be <br />used to transport the coal from Axial to near Rifle, Colorado. There the fresh water <br />would be replaced by salt-laden water -- about half the salinity of sea water -- <br />taken from Colorado's G1enwood and Dotsero Springs for the rest of the journey. The <br />Glenwood and Dotsero Springs are major sources of saline water which feed into the <br />Colorado River. <br /> <br />Grace said it believes the project would remove an estimated 250,000 tons of salt <br />per year from the Colorado River and help control a major source of salt pollution. <br /> <br />II <br /> <br />1/ <br /> <br />II <br /> <br />2 <br />