WSP05015

• File Number: 8410.300
• Description: Basin Multistate Organizations - Missouri Basin States Association
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 7/23/1982
• Author: MBSA
• Title: MBSA News
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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120 day comment period is provided before the new standards
become effective in 6 months (watch your Federal Register for
future release of the proposed standards).

Department of Interior

The Office of Water Policy is establishing an "agenda"
for future activities. Dr. Tom Bahr, the Office's new
director, has announced that a tentative work program includes
such policy issues as cost-sharing formulas, other methods
of "innovative" water project financing, water data needs for
high priority national water problems, and DOI's policy on
acquisition of water rights.

Bureau of Reclamation

The State of Colorado signed a $3,171,520 contract with
the Bureau of Reclamation on June 23, 1982 for use of the
Bonny Reservoir conservation capacity. The contract gives
Colorado the right to use the reservoir's 39,922 acre-foot
conservation capacity for recreation and fish and wildlife
purposes. The Colorado legislature authorized the funding
over a four year repayment period. The state presented BuRec
with a $2 million check as initial payment at the signing
ceremony. Colorado will also pay a proportionate share of
the annual cperation and maintenance expense based on a ratio
of the conservation storage capacity to the total reservoir
capacity.

The State of Colorado will have full use and management
of the conservation capacity within guidelines specified in
the contract. BuRec will continue to operate the facility
and has the right to make release for safety and maintenance
purposes. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will remain
responsible for flood control.

Bonny Reservoir is a significant fish and wildlife
and outdoor recreation resource in Eastern Colorado. The
State of Colorado has managed the recreation and fish and
wildlife uses of Bonny Reservoir under a lease agreement
with BuRec since 1951 and has made a substantial investment
in the development of the facility and management of the
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U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation

The U.s. Synthetic Fuels Corporation is expected to
announce that it will soon begin its third solicitation of
potential projects needing federal assistance. When announced,
project proposals will probably be accepted until November l.

First round solicitations are expected to result in one
or two loan guarantee contracts by September. The two
projects now expected to receive loan guarantees are a
$2.7 billion coal liquefaction plant in Breckenridge County, KY,
and a $2 billion indirect coal liquids plant near Gillette, WY.

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