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<br /> <br />19 <br /> <br /> <br />REPORT ON AUDIT OF lJpPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN WATER <br />RESOURCES DEVELQPMENT PROGRAM, BUREAU OF RECLA- <br />MATION, DEPARTMENT OF tHE INTERIOR, FOR THE FISCAL <br />YEARS 1957-59 <br /> <br />The General Accountjng Office has made an audit of selected <br />activities of the Bureau of 'Reclamation, Department of the Interior, <br />in the upper Colorado 'River basin for the fiscal years ended June 30, <br />1957, 1958, and 1959: This audit was made pursuant to the Budget <br />and Accounting Act, 1921 (31 U,S,C. 53), and the Accoupting and <br />Auditing Act of 1950 (31 U.S,C, 67), The scope of the audit work <br />performed is described on page 51 of this report. <br /> <br />GENERAL COMMENTS <br /> <br />The upper Colorado Rher basin is designated as those parts of the <br />States of Arizona, Colorallo, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming within <br />and from whicb waters nliturally drain into the Colorado 'River system <br />above Lee Ferry, Arizona, <br />The key projects in the development of water resources in the upper <br />Colorado River basin wet'e authorized by the Colorado 'River Storage <br />Project Act, approved April 11, 1956 (43 U,S,C, 620), Tbis act <br />authorized (1) the construction, operation, and maintenance of ini- <br />tial units of the Colorado River Storage Project consisting of dams, <br />reservoirs, power plants-, and transmission faCilities at Curecanti, <br />Colorado; Flaming Gorg$, Utah; Glen Canyon, Arizona; and Navajo, <br />New Mexico ( dam and re'servoir only) and (2) the construction, opera- <br />tion, and maintenance ofe11 additional reclamation projects (including <br />rela~e<,l p,!wer-geJ?-erating and trll.nsm!ssion facilities), referred to as <br />partlClpatmg proJects, The act provIded also that, m carrymg out <br />further investigations of'projects in the upper Colorado River basin, <br />priority should be given to completion of planning reports on 25 addi- <br />tionalparticipating projects. The purposes of the authorized projects <br />were defined as river reg1).lation, irrigation, generation of hydroelectric <br />power, f1oo,d control, expansion of recreational facilities, development <br />of fish and wildlife habitat, and municipal water supply, ' <br />According to the Bureau's financial and economic analysis, dated <br />December 1958,i:onstru~tion of the four initial storage units and the <br />Transmission Division of the Colorado 'River Storage Project, and <br />the 11 ini'tial participating projects is cstimated to cost more than <br />1 billion dollars, The proposed program provides for the construction <br />of hydroelectric facilitic$at three imtial storage units and one par- <br />ticipating project with a total installed capacity of 1,228,000 kilowatts, <br />Individually authorized reclamation projects constructed or under <br />construction by the Bureau of Reclamation' in the upper Colorado <br />River Basin are also inc~udcd in this report. <br /> <br />50566-60----5 <br />