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Page 12 LYMAN PARTICIPATING PROJECT, WYOMING The Lyman Project is located in Uinta County, southwestern Wyoming, near the town of Evanston, Wyoming. The Project will provide supplemental water to 42,674 acres of existing farmland and will provide fish and wild- life and recreation benefits. A $2,212,000 repayment contract executed with Bridger Valley Conservancy District on April 8, 1964, was validated by the Third Judicial Court on September 4, 1964, and upheld by the Supreme Court APril 28, 1965. Work continued on the construction of Meeks Cabin Dam and access road during F. Y. 1967. As of June 30, 1967, construction work on the dam was 32% complete. In connection with the fishing-access program proposed for the Blacks Fork below Meeks Cabin Dam, realty personnel of the Bureau of $port Fisheries and Wildlife and the wyoming Game and Fish Department jointly appraised and initiated negotiations for public-fishing easements along the first 10 miles of stream below the dam. NAVAJO INDIAN IRRIGATION PARTICIPATING PROJECT, NEW MEXICO Construction continued on the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project which is located in northwestern New Mexico. EXisting storage in the Navajo Unit Reservoir of the Colorado River Storage Project will be utilized for irrigation purposes. It will prOVide facilities for the irrigation of approximately 110,630 acres by the Navajo Indian Tribe. Construction was virtually completed during the year on the canal headworks in Navajo Reservoir and the 2 mile Tunnel No. 1 leading from the headworks. Construction continued on the 5.6-mile Tunnel No. 2 and construction was initiated on the Gobernador, 8.9, and Largo Siphons and concrete lining in the canal reaches mile 2.1-2.4 and mile 8.9-13.4. Work also continued on the accumula- tion of field data and the preparation of designs and specifications for future construction work. SAN JUAN-CHAMA PARTICIPATING PROJECT, COLORADO-NEW MEXICO The San JUan-Chams Project is located in south-central Colorado in Archuleta 'County and in north-central New Mexico in Rio Arriba, Taos, and Santa Fe Counties. This is a multip~ose project which will provide 48,200 acre- feet of water annually for municipal and industrial use by the city of Albuq,uerq,ue and the M:l,ddle Rio Grande Conservancy District. It will also provide facilities for the transmountain diversion of western slope water from the San Juan Basin into the eastern slope Cha.ma Basin. The initial phase of the project, which is presently authorized, will provide facilities for an average annual transmountain diversion of 110,000 acre-feet. In addition to these facilities the project includes the rehabilitation of four small irrigation units on tributaries of the Rio Grande. A full irrigation water supply will be provided for 39,330 acres and a supplemental supply for 81,610 acres of land. Fish and wildlife and recreation benefits will also be provided.