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<br />be diverted. 58 <br /> <br />By this means, the West Slope hoped to effectively assure that it <br /> <br />.would maintain rights to a larger share of the water in the <br /> <br />Colorado River basin and that the costs of building storage for <br /> <br />that water would be borne by East Slope interests. <br /> <br />In 1936 the Bureau of Reclamation completed plans for the <br /> <br />CBT Project. <br /> <br />Negotiations were then able to move to more <br /> <br />specific concerns. An agreement was reached regarding "Manner of <br /> <br />Operation of project Facilities" which incorporated a number of <br /> <br />protective conditions. <br /> <br />Congressional authorization of the CBT <br /> <br />Project in 1937 spelled out this agreement in Senate Document <br /> <br />80.59 <br /> <br />The CBT project was expected to divert about 320,000 acre- <br /> <br />feet per year. <br /> <br />As part of the project the proponents agreed to <br /> <br />build the Green Mountain Reservoir to provide water needed to <br /> <br />protect West Slope interests. <br /> <br />The reservoir capacity of 152,000 <br /> <br />acre-feet was to be utilized to replace any out-of-priority <br /> <br />diversions required for the CBT (52,000 acre-feet) and to <br /> <br />generate power and supply other beneficial uses in western <br /> <br />Colorado (100,000 acre feet) .60 <br /> <br />The purposes to be achieved -by <br /> <br />58Id. at 456. <br />5975th Cong., 1st Sess. (1937). <br /> <br />60As is often the case in such situations, much of the <br />concern of the West Slope representatives arose out of uncertain- <br />ty about the impacts of the proposed diversion. Protective <br />stipulations satisfactory to all concerned were able to be <br />developed once the needs were better understood. For a descrip- <br />tion of the specific issues, ~, Dille, A Brief History of the <br />Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District and The Colorado-Big <br /> <br />25 <br />