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<br />t <br /> <br />1:}Q3 <br /> <br />initial unit of the Gunnison-Arkansas Projeot report shows that about <br />~94,000,OOO of the projeot investment wc~ld be repaid fram net power revenues. <br />He indioated that if the export diversian should not be made, the falling <br />water oould be used on the Western Slope for pawer developnent to help i'inanoe <br />the oost 01' Western Slope irrigation dewlopnents. Mr. Christy stated that <br />about 1/7 of the hydroelectrio power developnent of the Gunnison-Arkansas <br />Project is fram rnilter dl:..erled from the Colorado River Basin and 6/7 is from <br />use of Arkansas River water. Mr. PO\'lllll was' reque sted by the Chairman to <br />f'urnish at the next meetin:; data on hydroeleotrio pawer that would be geIlllr- <br />ated fram Colorado River Vlater imported to the Arkansas River Basin under <br />the initial stage of the GUDnison-Arkansas Project. <br /> <br />25. !Jr. Batson stated that he believed the policy question raised by <br />Mr. Smith should be oonsidered in oonneotion with an earlier aotion by the <br />Steering COllIIlittee whioh deoided that uses of Colorado River waters for hy- <br />droeleotrio power development should be subservient to the uses of these <br />waters for irrigation and domestio purposes. Judge Stone stated that some <br />question had been raised regarding the praotioability of the hydroeleotrio <br />power davelopl!l8nt in oODneotion with the initial phase of the Gunnison- <br />Arkansas Projeot. This question should be rurther oonsidered atter teolmioal <br />review of this phase of the projeot report has been made. <br /> <br />Commitment to oonsider !DOre than the first lrl;a.ge of Gunnison-Arkansas Projeot <br /> <br />26. Considerable apprehension was expressed by the Western Slope in- <br />terests that if they gave approval to the first stage of the Gunnison-!\J"kansas <br />Projeot, suoh aotion might be oonstrued as an "opening '\'ledge" for approval of <br />the Deoond stage of the Gunnison-Arkansas Projeot and for approval of the Blue- <br />South Platte Projeot. After oonsiderable disoussion by Mr. Batson and members <br />of the oOlllllittee, it wa.s agreed that any aotion by the co=ittee on the initial <br />phase of the Gunnison-Arkansas Projeot should be based on that phase of the <br />projeot as an independant development. It rIBs further agreed that aotion of <br />the first phase of the GUDnison-Arkansas Projeot 'I'lill in no lII8mler be construed <br />as a oonmrl:bnent for action on the seoond phase of the Gunnison-Arkansas Projeot <br />or the Blue-8outh Platte Project. <br /> <br />Analysis of _tel' available for use in Colorado under the Upper Colorado River <br />Basin Compaot <br /> <br />27. 1\r, Delaney requested more detailed inf'oI'Illll.tion from the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board regardiIig the Board's analysis and findings of to- <br />tal present use of Colorado River Water in Colorado, the potential uses of <br />water w.i.thin the physical basin in Colorado, and the availability of an ad- <br />ditional one million aore-feet annually for exportation from the basin by <br />the two proposed diversion projeots, Gunnison-Arkansas and Blue-South Platte. <br />In other rrords Llr.. Delanoy stated it would appear only proper for the OOrl- <br />mittea to have in it~ reoords tho benefit of the Board's studies and also <br />have its assuranoe that C"lc;rado will be able to seoure the annual use of <br />the 3,855,000 aore-re,,\': 'l.~ is often referred to as Colorado's portion under <br />the Compaot. !ill'. Delcmey further stated that it muld be helpful for the <br />oommittee, and Wes-:'9rr. C,":O(':~"do as well, to have a break dO"1D by major trib- <br />utary streams of t:1" flow co,c" wuter oontributed by each stream and the pro- <br />posed use of \Vll;~er i.'l -I;~L' physioal Colorllcl,o :liver Bllsin under eaoh strewn. <br />After oonsiderabl" dis'J1l3S~"n of the clatt.er it was deoided that the questions <br />raised oould not be fuEy "-'lOl'l'3red at the ffia''l'Gins and that the Colorado <br /> <br />. <br />