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<br />,-rill provide hunting, fishing, roating, camping, and picnicking. Recreational
<br />DpEDrtunities at 'Ibtten and Groundhog Reservoirs may be improved because their
<br />surface elevations may be stabilized when storage of irrigation water is
<br />largely shifted to I1cPhee Reservoir. 'r11e stream fishery in the river belCM
<br />Y.lCphee Dam will be greatly inhance1 as a result of water releases made to main-
<br />tain a year-round live stream. Although whitewater roating may be altered
<br />somewhat because of project operations, good toating days will be grouped to-
<br />gether and accurately predicted in years when spring spills are forecast.
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<br />STA'IUS
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<br />'The rolores Project was aut..norizEd by the Colorado River Basin Act of Sept6T1ber
<br />30, 1968 (Public Law 90-537) as a participating project UDder the Colorado
<br />River storage Project Act of l\J?ril 11, 1956 (Public Law 84-485). 'The Draft
<br />Environmental Staterent ,,-as filed \vi.th CEX2 Novanber 1, 1976, aDd a DOOlic
<br />hearing was held December 4, 1976. The Final EnVirolll"'12.Dtal Statenent was
<br />filed with em l''By 9, 1977. The Definite plan P.e?Qrt was approvEd July 5,
<br />1977 . A repayment contract between the rolores ,vater Consexvancy District and
<br />the United States was aWrDvEd by t1'le voters in ~bnteZU!':1a and rolores Counties
<br />in an election held February 8, 1977, aTJd was validated September 23, 1977.
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<br />Bids were opened on Jrme 19, 1980 for t..'-le first major contract which was for
<br />construction of l'lcPhee Da;11 and Great, Cut Dike.' On July 8, 1980, a contract .in
<br />t..'1e arrount of $74,102,509.00 was awarded to Guy F.' Atkinson Construction,Co.- ~
<br />Groundbreaking cerffiOnies were held SeptEmber 24, 1977 at the Great cut Dike
<br />Site. hbrk rmder this contract is atout 50% a=plete with the scheduled comple-
<br />tion anticipated in September 1984. Acquisition of right-of.:.way for McPhee
<br />F.eservoir is atout 98 oercent =nolete.
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<br />Bids were opened Jor_tl!e I)olqr.es _:;runnel and Canal on January 19, 1982. Ohbayashi'
<br />Gumi, Ltd. of S9uth San Francisco, California was awarded the contract.in the
<br />arrormt of $11,686,290.00 on April 15, 1982.
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<br />The cultural resource mitigation program, :under a contract awarded in June 1978
<br />to the University of Colorado, is atout 65% =nplete. The program will be com-
<br />pleta:1 in Decenber 1985 and a small mJseum will be built to, ex.'1ibit the results_'
<br />of the excavations. The progi-am is one of the largest in North Arrerica.
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<br />Contracts for the r::oloresDistrict Headquarters, building ,in Cortez, was, COITq?leted,-
<br />in March 1980' ani for the field station building near the Great CUt Dike was I
<br />COll1j?leted in September 1979. The' access road to the field station ,vas paved
<br />by contract during 1981.
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<br />Data has been =llected for the design of the Great Cut P\.lITping Plant, rove
<br />Creek Canal P.each No;--li:'lcPhee RecreationaleoITPlEx' ahd~.the :Glade Road. Con"";,-:",
<br />tracts for Reservoir Clearing, Savage Treatrrent Facilities for Town of rolores,
<br />Plateau and Calf Creek Bridges, and Caaetery Relocations are to be a\varded
<br />in FY-82.
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