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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 000415 recommended for Colorado, wyoming, and Nebraska also contained in chapter 2. Many of the plan elements for the platte-Niobrara Subbasin were originally recommended in the Commission's Platte River Basin, Nebraska, Level B Study, completed in 1976. An element. of the recommended plan is Department of the Interior's .Platte River Studies." The analysis is being conducted in three parts--an hydrology study, an ecology study, and an operations study--by the Geological Survey, Fish and wildlife Service, and Water and Power Resources Service, respectively. Results of the studies should provide information needed to resolve a number of prOblems involving the future management of the Platte River. In the area of comprehensive planning, the recommended plan calls for the Water and Power Resources Service to assist the State of Colorado beginning in FY 1982 in completing its State water plan. The plan emphasizes the effort of several agencies to deal with the subbasin's identified urban and rural flooding problems. In the densely populated Denver metropolitan area, it is recommended that the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District continue its programs to delineate flood hazards and to plan for and construct measures to control them. The District is further called upon to cooperate with the Corps of Engineers to construct flood control measures at Westerly Creek near Denver. The plan also recommends that the Corps complete channel improvements on the South Platte River below Chatfield Dam. The plan recommends local flood control projects by the Corps at chronic flood-prone areas in Nebraska that include Pender, and Columbus. To help control flooding in upstream watershed areas, the plan calls for planning and construction of 30 Soil Conservation Service watershed projects. Eight projects are recommended for Colorado; 20 for Nebraska; and two in Wyoming. 7-9