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<br />8 <br /> <br />Treatment Facility are such a minimal part of the project <br />that everything possible should be done, either administra- <br />tively or through an Act of Congress, to allow the Denver <br />Water Department to exchange equivalent acreages to remove the <br />project from the Public Domain entirely. <br />However, should this prove infeasible or undesirable, <br />we recommend the following course of action: <br />First, we call upon the Colorado Delegation in the <br />United States Congress to insist of the U.S. Department of <br />Interior that the Environmental Impact Statement review and <br />hearing timetable be completed in the minimum possible time. <br />Not only does unnecessary delay add to the threat of a treated <br />water shortage in metropolitan Denver, but the actual cost <br />which must be borne by the cons~ers is rising at the rate <br />of more than $700,000 per month due to inflation and adminis- <br />trative costs which go on whether or not construction is <br />started. 17 Project cost may reach $134 million even if <br />18 <br />further delays do not occur. <br />Second, we call upon the Department of Natural Resources <br />of the State of Colorado to do everything possible to expedite <br /> <br />the data and concurrences which are necessary. Federal review <br />cannot be concluded until and unless State officials are in <br /> <br />full compliance. <br />Third, we recommend that Citizens for Sensible Water <br />Use participate in. any and all public meetings and hearings <br />concerning Foothills, both as an organization and its members <br />as individual citizens. It is essential that the record <br /> <br />00712 <br />