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<br />o <br />c. <br />CO <br /> <br />- <br />,- <br />-.. <br /> <br />c <br /> <br />. "'!.; 1 \ <br />. . ~', ~ \ \ \ <br />:;i::" X~O:~~ 7 >'RAP-UP \ \~ "D \ ~I&).~jli:; He ~'~~..;~:"~~~~..t <br />Date g 1l-l9-8l~L-... c ...- -.- - . . on, D.C., 20003 <br />problems of FERC hydro appl~nt .~O~ 27 ~Efa e 202-546-13jO-l <br />DOl CAP decisions, p. 4 vo-,J <br />oil shale legislation, p. 5 COLORADO WATER /6 ~ <br />T>Tashington-- "one-stop shoppin~,\~~~I~~:J..!!g.~~s before the Federal <br />Energy ~egulator.y Commission (FERC) for hydro licenses is necessary or <br />the entire licensing procedure may collapse. <br />"The threat to the entire program" comes from duplicatory federal <br />efforts and from conflicting state laws, according to Roland C. Fischer, <br />~ecretary-engineer of the Colorado River Water Conservation District. <br />Since 1975 the District has been before the Commission first for a pre- <br />liminary permit which it received in 1977 and now for a license to <br />build a big hydro project, the Juniper-Cross Mountain on the Yampa Riv- <br />er in Moffat County in Northwestern Colorado. <br />Juniper-Cross Mountain is a multiple-purpose water-and-power pro- <br />ject including two dams and reservoirs on the Yampa west of boomtown <br />Craig, Colo. The project would provide close to 1.3 million acre-feet <br />Of storage capacity to assure water for municipal, irrigation and in- <br />dustrial use, provide for a wide range of outdoor recreational activi- <br />ties,and would produce 350 million kilowatt hours of electricity annual- <br />ly. Tho hydro powar would be used as peaking power by Colorado-Ute <br />Electric Assn., a big S&T, headquartered at Montrose, Colo. (See tA'R1/IT, <br />Series XIX, #2, dated 1-8-81) <br />The project is just the kind that the Reagan Administration says <br />it wants to encourage because it will be built by non-federal entities. <br />But the reality is that so many people from other government agencies <br />are involved in the licensing procedure that it takes years to get a <br />license from FERC, ~ischer said in testimony before two Subcommittees <br />of the Senate Energy Committee on Oct. 19. <br />The District's application proposed a start of construction on <br />Juniper dam in January 1982, a start of construction on Cross Mountain <br />dam in 1983, and a fillinq of both reservoirs by 1985. <br />TWO BIS'S NEEDED <br />No way can this schedule be set under the cumbersome procedures of <br />the Commission, Robert L. MCCarty, Washington attorney for the Dist- <br />rict, told Western ~esources Wrap-up (WRW) on Nov. 17. ~ <br />