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<br />. <br /> <br />ffiJoom~Tr <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />EVALUATION OF NARROWS UNIT, COLORADO <br />Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program <br />November 1981 <br /> <br />INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />The Addendum to the Definite Plan Report for the Narrows Unit, May 1976, <br /> <br />evaluated a plan of development which would serve the following pur- <br /> <br />poses: irrigation, flood control, recreation, fish and wildlife, and <br /> <br />highway improvement. <br /> <br />The purpose of this evaluation is to analyze the authorized project with <br />municipal and industrial water and without flood control. The addition <br />of hydroelectric power is also evaluated. <br /> <br />AUTHORITY AND HISTORY <br /> <br />The Narrows Dam was ori gi nally authori zed as a unit of the Mi ssouri <br />River Basin Project (now the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program) by <br />the Flood Control Acts of 1944, 1946, and 1950. A definite plan report <br />was prepared in 1951. Public Law 88-442, approved August 14, 1969, <br />required that all Missouri River Basin Projects not under construction <br />at that time be reauthorized by an Act of Congress. Accordingly, a <br />feasibility report was published in January 1967 and approved and <br />adopted by the Secretary of the Interior in September 1967. <br /> <br />The Secretary of the Interior's report was transmitted to Congress in <br />May 1968 and printed as House Document No. 320. A reevaluation state- <br />ment dated November 1969 was made a part of the Department's reports on <br />the authorizing bills. Following the hearings, the Narrows Unit was <br />