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. . . " pi: f. ~ ,:.- ~.;~ .) year. Responsible field offices of the Corps of Engineers, Depart- ment of the Army, and the National Park Service and Fish and \>lilcUife Service, both of the Department of the Interior, have conducted reconnaissance in the fields of flood control, recreation, and fish and wildlife, respectively. The Forest Service, DepaI'tment of Agriculture, was consulted by the National Park Service on recreation aspects of the Ruedi Dam and Reservoir. The Colorado Ilepartment of Game and Fish has collaborated with the Fish and Wildlife Service in studies for this report. The COlorado Water Conservation District has prepared material on irrigation of the potential Basalt Project (Cattle Creek Unit and part of Mt. Sopris Unit both of the federal Clift's Divide Project). The Bureau of Reclamation has not had the funds and time to review or evaluate this material on the Basalt Project. Region 4 of the Bureau of Reclamation in Salt !ake City and its project office in Grand JUnction, Colorado have reviewed and summarized the municipal and industrial water studies of the State of Colorado and have prepared sections of this report on alternative uses of water for irrigation. HISTORY AND BACKGROUND During the original feaSibility investigations of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project the Colorado Water Conservation Board organized a policy and review committee to study and review plans and reports on the project. on January 19, 1951 the committee completed a recommended draft of project operating principles wh1ch was incor- porated in House Document No. 187. Those principles reflected eastern and western Slope agreement on project operations and provided various measures for the protection of rights and interests of the people on both slopes in Colorado. The principles also recognized Aspen Dam and Reservoir of 28,000 acre-feet storage capacity as an essential feature of the Fryingpen-Arkansas Project plan. That reservoir was to furnish water required for protection of western Colorado water users in accordance with provisions of section 1, chapter 192, Colorado Ses$ion !aws, 1943, reading as follows: "Provided, however, That any works or facilities planned and designed for the exportation of water from the natural basin of the Colorado River and its tributaries in Colorado, by any district created under this chapter, shall be subject to the provisions of the ColOrado River Compact and the Boulder canyon Project Act, as amended; that any such works 3