8043

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8043
• Author: Upper Colorado River Commission.
• Title: Twenty-First Annual Report of the Upper Colorado River Commission.
• USFW Year: 1969.
• USFW - Doc Type: Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Copyright Material: NO

x. Colorado River Storage Proiect
and Participating Proiects

A. APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS BY THE
UNITED STATES CONGRESS
FISCAL YEAR 1970

President Johnson's budget request for fiscal year 1970 was
transmitted to the Congress on January 15, 1969, The total recom-
mended to be appropriated to the Bureau of Reclamation for its con-
struction program on the Colorado River Storage Project amounted
to 826,000,000, The largest items included were $8,000,000 for the
Central Utah Project, Bonneville Unit, $6,300,000 for the San Juan-
Chama Project, $3,672,000 for the power transmission division, $3,-
500,000 for the Curecanti Storage Unit, and $3,000,000 for recrea-
tional and fish and wildlife facilities. In addition the budget con-
tained $3,500,000 to be appropriated to the Bureau of Indian Affairs
for continuing construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project,

The Operation and Maintenance Program for the Colorado River
Storage Project to be financed through the Upper Colorado River
Basin Fund amounted to $7,551,800. In addition to the operation and
maintenance activities on the Flaming Gorge, Glen Canyon, Navajo,
and Curecanti Storage Units, the transmission division, and Emery
County and Seedskadee participating projects, the 1969 program also
provided for the continued purchase of power to cover requirements
caused by diminutions in energy generation and capacity impairment
created at Hoover Dam powerplant as the result of operations of dams
and reservoirs of the Colorado River Storage Project, and provided
for quality-of-water studies.

The total fiscal year 1969 0 & M program of $7,551,800 will be
funded with $15,000 advanced by the water users and $7,536,800 by
revenues received from the sale of electric energy and water.

In cooperation with witnesses from the State of New Mexico the
Upper Colorado River Commission on April 1, 1969 submitted testi-
mony to the Subcommi.ttee on the Department of the Interior and
Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations of the House
of Representatives in support of construction funds for the Navajo
Indian Irrigation Project. The need for accelerating the construction
of this project beyond the rate of the past five years was emphasized

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On April 15, 1969 President Nixon t '
his recommendations of net reduct' ,ransmltted to the Congress
for fiscal year 1970 togetl e 'thlOnds m, requests for appropriations
, 1 r WI. etalls of th h
Document No 91-100) Th Ad . . e c anges, (House
tion of $38 "11' 'd e I~1.l~lstration recommended a reduc-
ml lOn un er the ongmal b d t
struction and rehab'l't t' u ge request for the con-
I I a lOn program f th B
The budget request for continuin 0 e, ureau of Reclamation,
Storage Pro]' ect and partl" t' g cons~ructlOn of the Colorado River
Clpa mg pro]ents h' 1 d
duced in the b d' t " avmg a rea y been re-
u ge request to a level 11 b 1 h
an orderly and efficient construction r we e ow t, at nec~ssary for
clude any further reductions' th b ate, th~ PresIdent dId not in-
River Storage Project in his ~ rile 15udget Items for, th~ Colorado
Congress, p , 1969 commumcatlOn to the

In r,evising the budget item for the Fr ' ,
the PresIdent reduced th d ymgpan-Arkansas Project
e recommen ed ' t'
000 to $7,900,000. ' appropna lOn from $14,900,-_

Witnesses representing the U C .
a.nd various entites in its member S~~~~s olorado RIver Commission
fled before the Public Works S b ' on June 2 and 3, 1969 testi-
u commIttee of th He'
on Appropriations and the Subc 'tt e ouse OIrumttee
and Interior Power Market' Aomm~ ee on Bureau of Reclamation
priations of the Senate, mg genCIes of the Committee on Appro-

At the end of the 1969 water year on
date of this report, H.R. 14159 the ,September 30, 1969, the
was still a pending item of b.' Pfubhc Works Appropriation Bill,
't usmess 0 the House Ap . t'
ml tee; although one-fourth f f 1 propna IOn Com.
o Isca year 1970 had elapsed.

Table X shows the amounts of mone re .
budget for fiscal year 1970 for th C 1 Yd q~ested m the revised
and participating projects. e 0 ora 0 RIver Storage Project

In addition, the First Session of th 9
S.ubcommittee on the Department of th: InIst .Congress, through its
Cles, considered legislation th t 'f tenor and Related agen-
'11' a , I enacted would a "
ml IOn for fiscal year 1970 to th B ' ppropnate $5.5
struction on the Nava]'o Ind' Ie, ur,eau of Indian Affairs for con-
lan rngatlOn Project N M '
amount was based upon a Budget item 0 . " ew, eXICO. This
added and expected to b d f $3.5 mIllIon WIth $2 million
e approve by the Congress.

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