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<br /> <br />COLOR4DORIVER STORAGE PROJECT <br /> <br />23 <br /> <br />(1) January 1957 price'levels and/or actual contract prices, and (2) <br />changes in projects resqlting from studies of more detailed investiga- <br />tions of project requirements, In the Bureau's December 1958 <br />financial and economic ,analysis, estimated construction costs totaled <br />$1,003,550,000, These; increased costs are discussed on pages 27 <br />and 28 of this report, 'I'he tentative allocation of the $1,003,550,000 <br />construction costs is dis,cussed on pages 24 through 26 of this report. <br />The authorized initial units of the Colorado River Storage Project <br />and participating projects are as follows: . <br /> <br />Storage Project <br /> <br />Name of unit <br /> <br />Location <br /> <br />Glon CanYOn___~__~._"~"__.nLnu <br />Flaming Gorge_ _u~___.n____"n___ <br />Navajo. '__0 nn".nnnn _____hn__ <br />Curecl\11tL._____ __h~__u._n.~^_.H_~ <br />'frallsrnissloll Divis1onn______~"____ <br /> <br />River <br /> <br />Northern ArJzona__________________~"_. <br />Northeastern Utah_______~__._~___u__~ <br />Northwestern New Mexico___w__nnn <br />Western Coloradon___n_______________ <br />Entire bas1n__~____________.;~_~u_n_~. <br /> <br />Colorado <br />Green <br />San Juan <br />Gunnison <br /> <br />The primary purposes of the Glen Canyon, Flaming Gorge, and <br />Curecanti units are the regulation of the flows of the Colorado River <br />and its major tributaries and the generation of hydroelectric power, <br />The Navajo unit will provide storage and make irrigation water <br />available for 110,630 acres of new lands, most of which are on the <br />Navajo Indian Reservation, <br />The current status of construction on the storage nnits and the <br />Transmission Division is discussed on pages 33 through 38, The act <br />provides that construction cannot start on the Curecanti unit until <br />engineering and econminic studies have been completed, and, the <br />Secretary of the Interiorilias certified to the Congress and the President <br />of the United States that this unit is economically justified, ' The <br />certification report, dat~d February 1959, was submitted to the Presi- <br />dent in May 1959 and tq the Congress in July 1959. <br /> <br />Participating projects <br />Name a/project Location Stream <br /> <br />PaonhL_w_______ <br /> <br />West central Oolorado_______ <br /> <br />Florlda._~n_n_nnn_~_____. Southwestern Oolorado~__ ___ <br />Smith Fork___n_nnnn__n~ West central ColoradOn~___. <br />Pino River Extenslonn_nnd Southwestern Oolorado and <br />northwestern New Moxico <br />Siltn___________n_n_nnnn West contral Oolorado____Hu <br />Hammond_u________________~ Nortllwestern New Mexico___ <br />Oentral Utah (initial phase)_. Soutbern slope of tho Uintah <br />Mountains <br />Emery Oounty_n__n_____Hn~ East central Utab________n__ <br />Seedskad(lG__~_____nnn_nn Southwestern Wyoming______ <br />La Darge__n______________n_ Southwestern Wyoming.un_ <br />Lyman_n.___.nnnnn__n~ Soutbwestern Wyomiugu____ <br /> <br />North Fork of tbe Gunnison <br />River <br />Florida River' <br />Smith Fork of the Gunnison <br />River <br /> <br />Pine River <br />Between RUle and Elk Oreeks <br />San Juan River <br />Strawberry River <br />Oottonwood Oreek <br />GreonRiver <br />Green River <br />Black's Fork of the :,Green <br />River <br /> <br />Participating projects will use water of the upper Colorado River <br />system for irrigation and other purposes and will receive assistance <br />from power revenues of, the Storage Project in the repayment of irri- <br />gation construction costs which are beyond the ability of the water <br />users to repay, The inqividually authorizcd Eden Project, Wyoming, <br />will also receive assistan.ce from power revenues of the Storage Project <br />in the repayment of irrigation construction costs. However, since no <br />additional construction on this project was authorized in the Colorado <br />Rivcr Storage Project Act, the Eden Projcct is not classified in the <br />act as a "participating project," <br /> <br />