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Estimated capital and operating oosts of alternative plans have been developed. ,Onder S.. 268, as previously reported to Senator Haskell bv letter dated May 1, 1975, annual pumping oosts are es- - timated to be $1 million. Additional oosts covering replaoements and capital expenditures to provide pumping facilities amount to $2.4 mil~on annually. For comparison purposes the total estimated cost increase is $3.4 million annually, and over a 40-year period, without considering inflation, this totals $136 million. .Additional costs created by the Johnson Bill have been developed on a comparable basis coveri~g capital oonst--uction, replacement, interest c.~arges and energy costs. Again, without considering in- flation, the costs total lIlOre than a half billon dollars over a 40-year period or $13.2 million annually where maximum pumping is required. But whatever the cost the same water, owned by the City of Denver, can be recovered by g:t'avity without t.l'le additional expenditure of money or the huge energy requirement. Incremental costs under any alte:rnative plan !!lUst be passed on to water users. The Board has a continuous obligation to bring to the attention to Metropolit~~ I Denver water user~ the very serious financial burden which an a~larged wilderness area will impose on them. We cannot overlook the enormous burden of additional legal expenses associated wi~~ suits for ch~~ge or alternate points of diversiori, the possible necessity for securing a presidential exception to an improvidently large wilderness at Eagle's Nest, or need of Cong:t'essional modification of existing legislation and interpretation of Sub-surface t~~el uses, or ~~e 00742