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<br />to- <br />~ <br />~ <br />... <br /> <br />( <br /> <br />CHAPTER II <br /> <br />PRIOR REPORTS AND CURRENT INVESTIGATIONS <br /> <br />Prior Reports <br /> <br />Much of the information used in this report was obtained from prior reports <br />made available by various Federal, State, and local agencies. Those reports <br />having a direct and important bearing on the water resources development of <br />the Yampa River basin are briefly described below. <br /> <br />"Upper Colorado Region, Comprehensive Framework Study," June 1971, including <br />a main report and 18 appendices, was prepared by State and Federal agencies <br />under the aegis of the Pacific Southwest Inter-Agency Committee. It pre- <br />sents the results of comprehensive investigations of water and related land <br />resources of the Upper Colorado region. <br /> <br />"Upper Colorado Resource Study, Colorado and Utah, Concluding Report," May <br />1980, was prepared by the Bureau of Reclamation. The report provides a sum- <br />mary of analyses of storage possiblities in the White and Yampa River basins <br />drawn largely from previous investigations but supplemented by some addi- <br />tional reconnaissance studies. It considers water needs for irrigation, <br />municipal and industrial, mineral and energy production, and fish and wild- <br />life purposes. <br /> <br />"Water and Related Land Resources, Yampa River Basin, Colorado and Wyoming," <br />April 1969, is a cooperative report prepared by the Colorado Water Conser- <br />vation Board and the United States Department of Agriculture. The principal <br />objective of this study was to develop information on water and related land <br />resource use and management, with particular emphasis on multipurpose use, <br />to provide a basis for coordinating USDA programs with the related activities <br />of local, State, and other Federal agencies. This report is one of the series <br />of cooperative river basin surveys being conducted by the U.S. Department of <br />Agriculture and the Colorado Water Conservation Board on the Upper Colorado <br />River and its tributaries on the western slope of the State of Colorado. <br /> <br />The U.S. Geological Survey conducted a basin-assessment project on the Yampa <br />River basin to evaluate the environmental effects of energy development in <br />the basin. The two main objectives of the assessment were (1) to describe <br />the hydrology of the basin prior to substantial coal-resource development <br />(phase I), and (2) to evaluate environmental and economic consequences of <br />coal-resource development, particularly in terms of the water resources of <br />the basin (phase II). Those multi-disciplinary studies in this assessment <br />which provided had valuable reference material for this appraisal report <br />are given below: <br /> <br />a. "A Discussion of Legal and Institutional Constraints on <br />Energy-Related Water Development in the Yampa River Basin, <br />Northwestern Colorado," by W. L. Knudsen, Jr. and J. A. <br />Danielson, December 1977. <br /> <br />5 <br />