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Show PART XII ALTERNATIVE LEVELS OF DEVELOPMENT will be 5,623 MW. Export diverted to Rio Grande Basin via the San Juan-Chama Project and diverted to the Lower Colorado Region to the city of Gallup will be increased 125,000 acre-feet over OBERS for a total export of 243,000 acre-feet. Utah will increase its use by irrigated crops 10,700 acre-feet over regionally interpreted OBERS and irrigate about 400,000 acres by 2020. There are no changes in fish and wildlife, recreation, or stock- pond evaporation and livestock use from OBERS. Export to the Great Basin by 2020 will increase to 447,000 acre-feet which is 20,000 acre- feet less than OBERS. Major changes are in increased thermal-electric power to 19,500 MW, increased mineral activity, including mining coal for powerplants, a million barrel per day oil shale development, and plants for processing oil impregnated sandstone and conversion of coal. Wyoming's alternative plan of development includes a substantial increase in the mineral industry including a million barrels per day oil shale production, depleting 97,000 acre-feet of water, and con- version of coal. Trona plant capacity will continue to increase. Population will be increased over regionally interpreted OBERS by 63,000 to 148,000 by year 2020. The agricultural base of irrigated land will be higher than OBERS and increase to 518,500 acres by year 2020. Thermal-electric power installed capacity is estimated at almost 10,000 MW. Transbasin diversions to the North Platte are estimated at 153,000 acre-feet which is a 32,000 acre-foot reduction from regionally interpreted OBERS. Summaries of Proposed Uses Table 16 enumerates water depletions by States, subregions, types of uses, and by time frames 1980, 2000, and 2020. Table 17 summarizes water supply, depletions, and outflow by subregion for this alternative, 61 |
