WSP11698

• File Number: 8210.470
• Description: Pacific Southwest Interagency Committee
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 8/6/1964
• Author: Unknown
• Title: Lower Colorado River Basin Project - Report with Individual and Minority Views - To Accompany S 1658 - Calendar Number 1267
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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'1'RELOWERCOLORADO RIVER BASIN PROJECT

BENEFITS TO OOSTS

The committee notes the favorable benefit-to"cost ratio of 2.4 to 1
for the overall project as determined by application of the criteria
established by Senate Document 97 of the 87th Oongress. Oonsider-
ing its magnitude this is an excellent project in terms of its economic
value to the Nation. Moreover, each of the separate features con-
sidered by themselves adequately meet the standard of economic
justification as indicated in the following tabulation:

Ben6/i18 and C08ts and benefit-cost rati08 by major feature
[Units in thonsands of dollars]

Feature Annual Annual Benefit-to-
benefits costs cost ratios
Central ArizoDs__.__________________ _ ___ _ _______________... __ $82, 537 $26,194 3.2 to 1
Southern N evada_____________ __ _. ___ _ ___ _ _ _ _ ~ _ __. ______ ___ ___ 5,866 3,697 1.6 to 1
Ma.rble Canyon ~clUding Coconlno)________________________ 17,994 10, 487 1.7 to I
Bridge Canyon ( clnding Paria)___u________________________ 44,394 22,618 2.0 to 1
Total, sec. 104.........__.......___.._...___..____________________ 150,791 62. 996 2.44 to 1

Repayment of major features--Lower Colorado River BaSin project,
title8 I and I I
Rep~~~n~o~er__________________________________________

From municipal and industrial water users________________
Fromrrrigators________________________________________

$713, 778, 000
248,634,000
277,000,000

TotaI______________________________________________ 1,239,412,000

Percent of total, 93.
Nonreimbursable purposes:
Recreation____________________________________________
Area redevelopment_____ ____" ___ _ _ __ _ __ _ _ _ __ _ _____u___
Fish and wildlife__ _ __ _ _ _ __ __ _ __ _ _ __ _ ___ __ ______ __ __ ___
Flood controL _ _ _ _ _ __ __ __ __ _ _ _ _ __ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ ___ __ _ __.

TotaL _ _ ___ _ _ _ _ __ __ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ u____ ____ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

16,457,000
14,213,000
57,024,000
8, 706, 000
96,400,000

Percent of total, 7.
Total cost__________________________________________ 1,335,812,000
I Excludes contributed funds and nomeimbursable Colorado .River development expenditures. Also,
excludes costs ot specific recreation facilities not associated with project works and costs for water quality
investigatIons.

Section 301 authorizes the appropriation of such sums as are re-
quired to carry out the purposes of both titles I and II of the act.

THE DIXIE PROJECT

On October 22, 1963, S. 26 was passed by the Senate. This act
authorized the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and
maintain the Dixie project, Utah, and provided that not to exceed
$3,500,000 of the total cost of such project be returned to the reclama-
tion fund from revenues derived by the Secretary of the Interior from
the disposition of power marketed from Federal projects in the Lower
Oolorado River Basin. While the Dixie project was specifically
authorized by the Senate, it is the intention of the committee that
the Dixie project be a participating project under S. 1658 in accordance
with the testimony presented during the hearings on S. 26.

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