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<br />-, <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />('(1002 <br /> <br />f. The proposed Trinidad Reservoir Project is economically <br />justified and has additional merit from tpe standpoint of other ,m- <br />evaluated and intangible benefits. <br /> <br />TIle District Engineer recommends: <br /> <br />a. That the recommendation contained in House Document Num- <br />bered 387, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, be withdrawn. <br /> <br />b. That (1) the Trinidad Reservoir Project on Purgatoire <br />River, Colorado, be c'onstructed by the COrPs of Engineers with funds <br />advanced by the United States; (2) the Buteau of, Reclamation maintain <br />and operate the project; 0) the United States contribute to the main- <br />tenance and operation of the reservoir project, in proportion to the <br />storage allocated to flood control, for th~ useful life of the project, <br />provided that abo;~ 4~,700 acre-feet of inviolate flood control storage <br />be reserved in th~ reservoir above e1evatiqn 6251.0 feet above mean sea <br />level, and that this storage will be operated in accordance ',o/ith regu- <br />lations prescribed qy the Secretary of the 4rrnw; and (4) contracts be <br />negotiated between the United States and a legally organized conser- <br />vancy district representing the project water users, prior to the start <br />of construction, for the delivery of the water supplies at equitable <br />charges which would pay annual irribation operation, maintenance and <br />replscement costs, and retire without interest all first costs of con- <br />struction allocated to irrigation, such annual ctarges to be within <br />payment capacity of the water users and related to water supplies and <br />agricultural prices. <br /> <br />eft <br />