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<br />fHJ2870 <br /> <br />The sections cited above will be quite general and nonquantitative (see, <br />for example, detailed analyses carried out in work task I-D). Historic re- <br />ports will be reviewed, and data will be compiled and evaluated for describing <br />the physical setting of the basin. Ongoing projects that will provide rele- <br />vant information to the assessment will be described, and analyses of land-use <br />information updating earlier studies (Colorado Water Conservation Board and <br />U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1969) wil I be made. An initial evaluation of <br />aerial photography has been made by G. K. Moore of the U.S. Geological Survey, <br />Sioux Falls, S. Oak. Surface-land ownership and mineral-rights ownership com- <br />pilations have been completed by the Bureau of Land Management in a series of <br />surface-minerals management quadrangle sheets, at a scale of 1:126,720. Graph- <br />ic depictions of hydrologic and climatological conditions, as well as geologic <br />structures, will be provided. <br /> <br />Current and Future Resource-Development Plans <br /> <br />(Work task I-B) <br /> <br />In the first study component (Phase I), the project staff, in consultation <br />with other members of the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Bureau of Land Manage- <br />ment, other agencies, and energy-development industries will specify the anti- <br />cipated optional development proposals for energy and related natural resources <br />in the Yampa River basin. Briefly, each of these development proposals will <br />consider the following: <br /> <br />a. Potential utilization and mix of energy resources (coal, oil and gas, <br />oil-shale, geothermal resources, and hydroelectric power); <br /> <br />b. Delineation of probable area(s) of energy-resource development; <br /> <br />c. Institutional constraints (local, State, and Federal) affecting pro- <br />posed energy-resource development; <br /> <br />d. Types of coal-extraction techniques, and conversion alternatives; <br /> <br />e. Areal distribution of electric-power utilization derived from fossil- <br />fuel generation, both internal and external to the basin; <br /> <br />f. Method of transportation for raw-energy resource for external power <br />conversion (for example, unit trains or slurry pipel ines); <br /> <br />g. Documentation of projected power-generator demands as indicated by <br />industry for the period 1975 to 1990; and <br /> <br />h. Preliminary analyses of water demands (quantity and quality) asso- <br />ciated with the various energy-development proposals. <br /> <br />To complement the above, a historical perspective of energy-resource develop- <br />ment in the basin will be included to serve as a background to the impending <br />expanded activities. <br /> <br />5 <br />