Federal authorities have rejected a Colorado entrepreneur's request for a rehearing on his project to build a Flaming Gorge pipeline and divert Colorado River Basin water from Wyoming to Colorado. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's order Thursday sent Fort Collins-based Aaron Million back to the drawing board. Million's company, Wyco Power and Water Inc., "presented no information in its permit application or its request for rehearing to indicate that the planning, routing or authorizations for the water conveyance pipeline are in progress or reasonably foreseeable," FERC's order said. Until Wyco can do that, the order said, there's no point in issuing a preliminary permit.
FERC is the second federal agency to reject Million's plan. He first applied for a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. That agency halted its review after seeking greater detail. The project would pump about 200,000 acre-feet of water a year through a 501-mile pipeline from the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in southwestern Wyoming — along the Green River — to Colorado's Front Range. Million proposes to generate electricity at power stations and then store water in a series of new and expanded reservoirs from Fort Collins to Pueblo for municipal use and to irrigate crops. Million said he expected this rejection and learned from the process.
FERC is the second federal agency to reject Million's plan. He first applied for a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. That agency halted its review after seeking greater detail. The project would pump about 200,000 acre-feet of water a year through a 501-mile pipeline from the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in southwestern Wyoming — along the Green River — to Colorado's Front Range. Million proposes to generate electricity at power stations and then store water in a series of new and expanded reservoirs from Fort Collins to Pueblo for municipal use and to irrigate crops. Million said he expected this rejection and learned from the process.
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