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Show PART VI FRAMEWOEK PLAN AND ALTERNATIVES States* Alternative to the Framework Plan Elements of plan For comparative purposes the states proposed, as one alternative, a plan utilizing the same depletion amount (6.55 million acre-feet per annum) as the framework plan. Under this alternative the state distribution of consumptive use equals the Upper Colorado River Compact percentage allot- ments with adjustments in types of uses expressed by the respective states (Table Ik). In the framework plan, there is the need to service a large electric power market from potential fuel-burning electric powerplants in the Upper Colorado Region. Each of the States of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming has programmed a part of its coal and water resources for the production of such energy. Previously the states had agreed to maintain proportionate levels of water development very close to their respective percentage allotments in the Upper Colorado River Compact. Without up- setting a multitude of water uses set forth in the framework plan, the approximate state percentages could be maintained only by an arbitrary assignment to each state of portions of the needed thermal-electric power installations as necessary to bring each state's total water uses to amounts approximating the compact percentages. Although this assignment depicted a reasonable satisfaction on a regionwide basis of the require- ments for a framework plan, there were certain features objectionable to Colorado and Utah. Changes made from the basic data, contained in the framework plan, are given in the following narrative and in Tables ik, 15, and 16. Arizona retained its exact allotment of 50,000 acre-feet per annum in the revised year 2020 distribution with no change in types of uses. Colorado varied its water depletions for full and supplemental ir- rigated land by 88,000 acre-feet less in 198O; 1^5,000 acre-feet more in 2000; and 31?500 acre-feet more in 2020. Irrigated land acreage varied by 18,000 less acres in 198O; 80,000 more acres in 2000; and 6,500 acres more in 2020. An oil shale industry of 1 million barrels-per-day capacity, with a support population of 78,000 depleting 97,000 acre-feet annually, was added. A coal-byproducts plant, using 15,000 acre-feet, and a potash plant, capacity 1.5 million tons annually, using 9,500 acre- feet annually, are projected. Exports are increased by 2,^00 acre-fee"t and fish and wildlife by 600 acre-feet annually. It appears that Colo- rado would deplete its 51.75-percent allotment by the year 2000. Thermal - electric power installed capacity is lessened by 9,690 megawatts from "the framework plan, depleting 1^6,^00 acre-feet less annually. In addition, 22,100 acre-feet of irrigation water would be transferred between 2001 and 2020 to meet municipal and industrial requirements. 81 |
