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lGJ included for the powerplant for keeping salts from the Colorado River System aft",r the plant i" eventually laken out of service and dismantled. 8. The comments on the EJS for the Dolores Project in SOuthwestern Colorado, S(cltro that there should be a diSCussion of salt pickup from project facilities located on Mancos shale, :hat canals passing through the shale should have concrete linings, and that measures should be adopted for reducing the salt pickup from lands in thl:' Montezuma Valley. 9. The staff's comments on the draft EI5 for the proposed S,nerv.POI Hook Project, localed in the little Snake River Basin of Color<ldo .'lnd Wyoming, rt'qut.'sled an explanation of the low salt pickup assumed for the propoSM irrigatt>d aredS dnd a description of possible measures that would be taken to decrease the sail load from the project. Construction continued on the Lyman Project, an irrigation project in southwl"stern Wyoming. The Bureau of Rfflamation awarded an $' 1 million Contract for construction of Stateline Dam, which is the second and last of the storage dams rl"Quired for this Project. Construction continue1:::l on the Fryinf{fJJn-Ad.msiH Project, a transmountain diversion project in Colorado. A $].5 million COntract was awarde1:::l bv the Bureau of Reclamation for the second of two pump-turbine units for the Ml. Elbert Pumped-Storage hydrot'lectric powerplant under construction n('ar leadville, Colorado. Alro, other contracts totalling $15 million were awarded for switchyard facilities, a lransmission line, d second generator-mOlOr unit, t\.\.o lunnels of the North Side Collection Svstem. and waler and sewer systems. Construction continued during the year on the Sal.njo Indian Irriflation Project Conlracts totalling $12.8 million \.\t>re awarded bv the Bureau of Reclamation for a pipeline " Sorting and packing beans grown in Southern CalrfOrnia. distribution SySlem which will open up an additional 9,900 acres of land on thp Ndva;o Indian Resprvation, ior two ~pnpralors at the Navajo Ddm Powt'rplant, dnd for construction of the NavajO Dam Powerplant and Switchyard. A contract betwPen thE' Navdjo Tribe and the United Slates for furnishing a supply of irrigation water to the Project was executed in April, and irrigation commenced on an initial block of 10,000 acres during the vear. The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $2.3 million contract for the construction of access roads to the sites of the- Upper Stillwater Reservoir and the- lower Stillwater Reservoir. which are features of the Central Utah Project '5 Bonne~'t1!e Unit. In April 1976, the partners in the proposed KJiparo~..it-, powerp!ant announced the abandonment of the 3,000 m~awalt project, for which the Utah Stale Enginet'r had approved a waler rights application for 102,000 acre.fet'1 per year from the Colorado Riv(>r. In July, the partners announced that they are considering building: a coal-gasification plant at the Kane Count V site that would require only 30,000 acre~fet:'1 pf'r Year. lmler BJ.~/n DNe!opment5 The BOdrd's st.lif revie\\ro the draft EIS on the Sl:'Cond Stage of the Southern NehJ(j.l I t'J(er Project. The first stage, which began waler deliveries in 1971, can deliver 132,000 .lcre-fft"t per \iear. The second stage would .ldd .ldditional pumping unils to the existing intake facilities at lake \-lead that were originally constructed to full size and additional pi;:>elines with a cap.lcitv of 166,80(} acre-feet per yedr to bring lhe Project's lotal diversion capacity from the Colorado River to 299,000 acre.feet per yedr. This Project and OIher existing diversions would be more than sufficient to divert all of Nevada's apportioned rights 10 mainstream Colorado River water. The estimaled cost of the ~ond slage is appro....imately SIlO million. The staff reviewed a draft EIS on