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Show PART VI FRAMEWORK PLAN AND ALTERNATIVES Service facilities, especially lodging and restaurants, are needed to support the increased tourism and recreation activities. Development oriented to year-round rather than seasonal-type use would justify the construction of such service facilities. Fish and Wildlife Plans and programs for sport fishing facilities, including fishing impoundments, access development, fish hatcheries, and habitat improve- ment and management, are planned to meet a fishing demand "which will more than double. Sport hunting facilities and programs, including land ac- quisition and/or development, access roads, and habitat management and improvement, are planned for a hunting demand which will almost double. Table 10 lists these practices. Export of water Existing facilities for exporting water from the basin to meet in- dustrial, municipal, and irrigation needs will be enlarged and new facil- ities constructed as required. In Colorado existing facilities and en- largements of collection systems will provide most of the capacity for export. Projects, some of which are listed below, are under construction or are planned for construction in the near future. The San Juan-Chama Project export facilities in Colorado and New Mexico are under construc- tion for export of 110,000 acre-feet to the Rio Grande Basin in New Mexico. Utah is in the process of constructing facilities to export 166,000 addi- tional acre-feet of water from the Uinta Basin to the Great Basin through the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project. This figure includes 29,500 acre-feet of reservoir evaporation associated with the transmoun- tain diversion. Other planned developments under study could increase the Utah total to ^+67,000 acre-feet. Wyoming has constructed a part of* the Cheyenne-Laramie transmountain diversion, which will have an ultimate capacity of 315OOO acre-feet, and plans include additional diversion of* 15^,000 acre-feet to the North Platte River starting in 198O. Water quality, pollution control, and health factors Water depletions will nearly double during the study period and ad- ditional salt pickup will occur. A Colorado River Basin salinity program is proposed which would main- tain the salinity concentration at Lees Ferry at about present levels. The programs (not fully evaluated until research and demonstration proj- ects underway or proposed have been completed) include plugging wells and springs, desalting the flow of springs, controlling diffused sources, and minimizing the pickup of salts by various irrigation system improvements. Acid mine drainage from active and abandoned hard-rock mines would, be reduced. About 75 percent of these mines are located in the Upper Main Stem Subregion and the remaining 25 percent are located in the San Juan-Colorado Subregion. 71 |