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A 2-HRV1 washn x x x back at least 20 years. All others are less than 20 years old, and there is considerable doubt that decrees and filings of recent date will ever be translated into real water. I r , Applications for water in Utah oil shale country total 72,380 acre- feet of Colorado River ~'later. That is \'lell \'/ithin the 107,000 acre-feet of unconnnitted water out of utah's share of Upper Basin \'Tater, \'lhich is estimated at 1,322,000 acre-feet. Sohio Petroleum Co., Western Oil Shale Corp. F. H. Larson, and Atlantic Richfield all have pending water applications on file with the Utah state \reter engineer. ~1e oil shale EIS gave no dates on ti1e utah applications. The EIS estimated that 67,000 acre-feet of Wyoming water, includ- ing 19,000 acre-feet from the Fontenelle reservoir on the Seedskadee project, could be available for oil shale development. It indicated the bulk of Wyoming's oil shale water ~~uld come from 48,000 acre-feet unconuni tted at this time out of Wyoming I s share of Upper Basin water, estimated at 805,000 acre-feet. I I Bureau of Reclamation water experts have told Western Resources wrap-up, however, that the state of vlyoming is considering diverting most of its 48,000 acre-feet of uncommitted Upper Basin' water from the Green River Basin in the Colorado River \'ratershed to the Missouri River o} I -.' 90 Basin for coal developments in eastern Hyoming. If such a project mat- erialized, very little \'later from this source would be left for oil shale development. At the same time, \reter from Flaming Gorge reservoir would be available for oil shale developments in eastern utah and south- ..,restern Wyoming, although this source does not show up in the tables in the oil shale EIS detailing present and future water use in these states. PROTOTYPE PROGRAl'1 AND llATURE INDUSTRY The final oil shale EIS made b10 analyses of water demand vis-a- vis oil shale developments: one as to the six-tract test lease program that Interior plans to initiate lat~ this year, and one as to a mature oil shale industry of a million barrels of shale oil per day projected to be in operation by the mid 1980's. It estimated the amount of water ~,at would be needed for the six tracts on public land, each 5,120 acres, would be relatively mi~or. \fLIorehcm) t (: