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<br />Statement by Senator Anderson of New Mexico on Statns of Colorado <br />River Storage Proje,ct. with respect to the Seventh Annual Report <br /> <br />Under date of December 30,1963, Hon, Kenneth Holum, Assistant <br />Secretary of the Interior, transmitted to the President of the Senate <br />the seventh annual report of the Department of the Interior on the <br />status of the Colorado River storage project and participating proj- <br />ects, as required by section 6 of the Authorizing Act of April 11 , 1956 <br />(70 Stat 105), <br />These annual reports reflect the progress that has been made since <br />1956 when construction was initiated. In the 7 past years, the <br />Navajo Dam has been substantially completed, the Flaming Gorge <br />and Glen Canyon Dar(1s and powerplants are approaching completion <br />and the Curecanti unit and the transmission system are well along the <br />way, Four of the plfrticipating projects are in the final stages of <br />construction. It is of interest to note that during 1963 the first <br />annual repayment for- municipal water facilities was returned to the <br />Government. ' <br />Mr, President, despite the tremendous size of the project, and the <br />engineering complexities that faced the planners, it is only fair to <br />pomt out that there were always men available to meet the challenge <br />and effectively produce the things that had been contemplated. <br />It is with considerable pride that I pay my respects particularly to <br />the three engineers, alumni of the University of New Mexico School <br />of Engineering, who have been to a large degree responsible for the <br />successful constructioti. of the major dams on the project. Two of <br />these men have just retired from the Bureau of Reclamation, and I <br />am advised that the third will continue at least until his job as con- <br />struction engineer on the Curecanti unit has been completed. The <br />following information s,upplied by the Bureau of Reclamation indicates <br />in summary the high regard with which these graduates of the univer- <br />sity of my State of Now Mexico are held by their associates_ <br /> <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />[U ,8.. Department or the Interior news release] <br /> <br />This month marks the retirement of two of three engineers who were graduated <br />from the University of New Mexico School of Engineering within 3 years of each <br />other and who'have climaxed remarkably similar Bureau of Reclamation careers <br />with the construction of the major storage dams on the Colorado River storage <br />project, the Department of the Interior said today. <br />One, Jean R. Walton, construction engineer at Flaming Gorge Dam on the <br />Green River in northern Utah, has already retired. The other, L. F. Wylie, who <br />has served as construction: engineer for the giant Glen Canyon Dam on the Colo- <br />rado River in northern Arizona, retires January 24. <br />The third of the trio ofl Bureau of Reclamation engineers, who all were grad- <br />uated from the Univer~ipy of New Mexico School of Engineering between 1931 <br />and 1933, is James D. Seery, construction engineer on the Curecanti unit, which <br />involves construction of three dams on the Gunnison River in Colorado. He <br />intends to stay on the job :until construction work there is finished. <br />The three have a total of 96 years of service in the Federal Government, almost <br />all of it, e~cept military service, with the Bureau of Reclamation. <br />"The retirement of L. F-. Wylie and Jean R. Walton will be a tremendous loss <br />to Reclamation," Commissioner Floyd E. Dominy said. "These two men have <br /> <br />VII <br />