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O~1751 project. This weuld be done to the fullest practicable extent. The following statement is extraeted fram the Project Substantiating Re- port, page 62 of House Document No. 187$ 83d Congress~ 1st Session: "A si tG plan or gGneral layout clra.ling would be pre- pared for all construction sites sho,ilng structures pecul- iar to the construction period and their relation to the ultimate installations. Consideration would be given to proposals of the National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service, and other Government agencies as a means of coordinating the activities and recommendations of all agencies concerned with the location of Bureau of Reolamation structures. "Land acquisition for reservoir sites, canal rights- of-v~y and related facilities would include censideration for maximizing, within statutory limitations, i'ish, 1Iild- life, and recreatienal values. This consideratien is essential if full public values are te be realized and if USG problems, which have developed at existing Bureau featurGs, arc to be rninill1ized on new projects." Reference should alse be made to paragraph 87 of the Report of the Regional Director which appears on page ho of H.D. 187. The paragraph states: "Continued studies and investigations in the projoct aroa and in contiguous areas within the drainago of both slopes should bo pur- sued vigorously on a Departmental basis~ in cooperation with other Federal, state, and local agencies, toward the objective of vdse con- servation and benElficial use of all natural resources." It is our understanding that thc Department of Agriculture's letter of May 23, 1952 superseded the earlier letter datod October 10, 1951. The following brief commcnts pertain to tho October 10, 1951 letter. Our Area Engineer at Pueblo, Colorado has participated actively in the interagency planning effort in the Arkansas-iiliite-Red River Basins. The Fryingpan-Arkansas Project will be described in that forthcoming re- pert. Separable segments of the multiple-purpose Fryingpan-Arkansas Project are 0Valuated separately. The suggestion that thc contenlplated conversion of winter flow be made a condition of Federal participation v~uld only defer the project. Detailed studies ,illl be required for the resolution of that and other problems and such studies ordinarily are not made until after the project has been authorized. Such matters will be resolved in the preconstruction Definite Plan Report. The Fryingpan- Arkansas Project will not affect the Maroon-Snowmass primitive area in any way. With respect to small-scale irrigation projects at higher alti- tudes on both sides of the Continental Divide: there are no such pro- jects or potentialities in the diversion area, the Aspen Reservoir pro- vides such protection for lower areas, only ,vater reasonably surplus to - 16 -