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9 ,,'''01\ ' r", ~"G(.;, !!mRJl-WGY AND OPEAATIONS IllIPortations Since the testimony of 1957 before the House Irrigation and Reclamation Subcommittee, hydrologic studies have been extended to cover the period 1911-1957. The original period of study was 1911-1944. Studies of water available for importation by the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project for the extended period are included in the report on Ruedi Dam and Reservoir. Average annual project imports of water for the 1911-1957 period amount to 69,100 acre-feet compared with 69,200 acre-feet for 1911-1944. The western slope colleotion system for the projeot remains the same as that contained in House Document No. 187 except that some tunnels have been substituted for open canals. Requirements for bypass of water for fishery, speoified in the revised operating principles for the project, are the same as originally contemplated. On April 24, 1959 a stipulation was signed by representa- tives of the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District and the Colorado River Water Conservation District, a western slope entity. The stipulation provided that any decree which might be entered by the oourt awarding a priority of right to use of the Fryingpan and Roaring Fork River water by the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project should be of the same date and priority number as previously awarded by the court to the potential Basalt Project. On August 3, 1959 the District Court in Glenwood Springs delivered Decree No. 718 with the priority date July 29, 1957 for the Fryingpan-Arkansas Proj ect. Thi s is the same priority number and date previously granted the Basalt Project. The decree and stipula- tion limit Fryingpan-Arkansas Project diversions to 120,000 acre-feet of water in any one year and to an aggregate of 2,352,800 acre-feet in any period of thirty-four consecutive years. Based on water supply studies for the 1911-1957 period, these limi.tations would not be restrictive or result in impairment of the project operations or feasibility. Power production Extension of the operation studies through 1957 results in a small change in average annual power production by the Fryingpan- Arkansas Project. Annual generation amounts to 507.2 ml.llion kilowatt- hours for the 1911-1957 period compared with 505 million kilowatt-hours for the 1911-1944 period.