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fnS~2 FRYING PAN-ARKANSAS PROJECT, COLORADO Mr. ROGEns. If Mr. Haley ,lesit'es to yield for Mr. Palmer to make a brief statement for the benefit of the new members, certainly the Chair has no objection. Mr. HALEY. I yield to the gentleman from California, Mr. SAUND. Mr. Chairman. Mr. CHENOWETH, Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield to me'! Mr. ROGEns. He yielded to Mr. Sauml, Mr. Chenoweth. Mr. SAUND. Mr. 'Chainnan, that was done last year, requested of the chairman t.hat the hearings be held in complete form SO the new members would understand what this proje.ct means. "lVe a.re going to put into the record hearings that were held many years ago. Most of us new members renlly do not undcrstand it and I think Mr. Olsen's point is very well taken. I am one of those members \.."ho is definitely interested ill the project. and have not heard these he!uings that. are going to be mnrle a part of the record. Mr. CHENOWETH. Will the gentleman yield! Mr. ROGERS. Do YOll yield to the gentleman from Colomdo! Mr. HALEY. Yes. Mr. CHENOWETH. I fully concur in what Mr. Olsen s>lid and I thought :r.fr. Palmer was going to poiut out t.he details of the project when he went to tho map. I thought he was going to e"plain the whole project.. I think it is yery important for the members to h,we full information on the project. Mr. PM~>IER. I believe 1 wj]] let. Mr. Ogilvie, who has supervised the work in Dem'er, do t.hat, Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Haley has the floor, unless he yields for that purpose. ~1:r. I-L\LEY. I ha.ve no objection. I Lhink the members of the com- mitteo should have t.he henefit of t.he explanation at. this time. Mr. ROGEns. The gentleman from FloridlL yields for that purpose. Will you or Mr. Ogil\'ie make a stat(,ment on that,! Mr. OOlLVIE. I will be glad to do t.hat" Mr. Chairman. The Frying-pan-Arkansas project is a tl'ansmol1ntain diversion proj~ eet developed to divert water from the west.ern slope-this colored lille you See through here is the Cont.inental Diyide-t.he western slope diversion area is in t.he vicinity of Aspen and the little town of Ruedi on these upper tributaries of the Roaring Fork and tbe Fryingpnn River. The water is to be collected from those upper t.ributlLries and bl'Ouf(ht to tho central point., diverted through under the Cont.inental Divide in the primary t.unnel and thence to t.he eastern slope of t.he Con- tinental Di\'ide to t.he headwaters of the Arkansas Hiver where it will be collected in the first reservoir, Su~nr Lo,d ne~ervoir, unu t.hen through a series of powerplant~, an additional regulating reservoir at Twin Lakes Reservoir, a.mlllll addit.ional series of c:lnnls find power- plants down along the Arkansas River down as far as Salida. Before I lea"e the Continental Divide, I point. out. that. t.his is the Ruedi Reservoir which is to be constnwtecl to take care of t.he repla~e~ ment requirements to meet downstream needs ",hich might otherwise he i~lle.rferecl with fiS a result of din~).sion by the Fryingpan-ArktlIlsas proJect.. MI'. ROGERS. Right at. that. point, Mr. Ogilvie, \\'ould xou ~t.ate for the record t.he amount of wat.er by a('re-feet that is available from that particular source for bot.h sides d the divide 1