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Page 14 includes representatives from the Bureau of Reclamation, Agricultural Research Service, Soil Conservation Service, and the University of Wyoming. The studies on the farm will provide info:rmation on water manage- ment practices, crop production and livestock-handling techniques, and their relationship to the optimum size of family "arm units for the Seedskadee Project lands. Detailed records are being kept as a basis for initiation of agricultural engineering and economic studies preparatory to develop- ment of the Seedskadee Project. In addition to the foregoing studies which were continued during F. Y. 1967, a rotating sprinkler irrigation system was installed on May 18, 1967, to determine the success of this type of irrigation on Seedskadee Project lands. Recreational development completed at Fontenelle Reservoir includes 4 comfort stations, 14 camping and picnic shelters, 50 camping and picnic sites, water supply system, sanitary facilities, boat launching ramp, boundary fencing, utility and office building, access and circulatory roads, and parking areas. A Memorandum of Agreement (Contract No. 14-06-400-4402) was executed by the Bureau of Reclamation and Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife to establish a compatible common boundary between the Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge and adjoining farm units of the Seedskadee Project. The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and lVildlife appointed a refuge manager to aid the detailed planning and initial management operations at the Refuge. Lands now under administration include certain of reclamation withdrawn and acquired lands and a 916-acre tract purchased with Section 8 funds. The refuge boundary was fenced and posted and available water used in developing duck nesting habitat. . SIm PARTICIPATING PROJECT, COLORADO The Silt Project will provide a supplemental water supply for 4,628 acres of land and a full supply for 2,416 acres in west-central COlorado in Gar- field County near the town of Rifle, Colorado. The project will also provide fish and wildlife and recreation benefits. The principal features include the Rifle Gap Reservoir on Rifle Creek, which 'will store water for release into Davie Ditch and to Ri.fle Creek for diversion to the Grass Valley Canal. Water will be pumped from the Colorado River near Silt at the Silt Pumping Plant to serve project lands. The status of construction at June 30, 1967 WaS as follows: Percent complete Silt Pumping Plant and Pump Canal 98 Rifle Gap Dwn and Reservoir 98 Davie Ditch, Grass Valley Canal Rehabilitation, and Dry Elk Valley Lateral 97