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<br />II' <br />" <br /> <br />1'"' " i? <br />..J. _ . ..... <br /> <br />STATEMENT OF DIREcrOR <br />COWRADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD <br />BEFORE TI-IE <br />SUBCOMMITfEE ON NATIONAL PARKS AND PUBLIC LANDS <br />COMMITfEE ON TI-IE INTERIOR <br />UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES <br />ON H.R. 1321 <br /> <br />MARCH 31, 1992 <br /> <br />Mr. Chairman and Congressman Campbell <br /> <br />My name is Sara Duncan. I am Director and Secretary of the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board, which is the water policy planning agency for the State cf <br />Colorado. I appreciate this opportunity to provide testimony to you today on behalf <br />of the Colorado Water Conservation Board. <br /> <br />H.R. 1321 will redesignate the existing Black Canyon of Gunnison National <br />Monument as a National Park, create the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National <br />Conservation Area, designate twenty-one thousand thirty eight acres within the newly <br />created Conservation Area as the Gunnison Gorge Wilderness Area and designate the <br />Gunnison River from the upstream boundary of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison <br />National Monument downstream to the confluence of the North Fork of the Gunnison <br />River as a Wild River under section 3(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. <br /> <br />The Gunnison River originates at a point where the East River and Taylor <br />River join in Almont, Colorado. From that point it flows downstream through <br />Gunnison, Colorado about 25 miles into Blue Mesa Reservoir, the largest and most <br />upstream reservoir of the three reservoirs comprising the Aspinall Storage Unit of the <br />Colorado River Storage Project. After leaving Crystal Dam, the last reservoir in the <br />Aspinall Storage Unit, the river is in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. From Crystal <br />