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<br />Table X
<br />COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT APPROPRIATIONS
<br />Fiscal Year 1970
<br />
<br />Pro jeet
<br />Colorado River Storage Project:
<br />Curecanti Unit, Colorado ..
<br />Transmission Division.." ....,.....'....'
<br />
<br />Participating Projects:
<br />Bostwick Park, Colorado ..__..,u..,..,..".. """...,.."
<br />Central Utah, Bonneville Unit, Utah ..,,'
<br />Lyman, Wyoming-Utah ..".....".... ,.. ,.., :.."..' "",......'
<br />San Juan-Cham3., Colorado-New MeXICO ..,....u..'
<br />Drainage and Minor Construction ...,..',"
<br />Advance Planning "...' ,.., ..,."", ..."""""",.."..,"',..."..,"",..,
<br />
<br />Subtotal.., ".',," "., ..,." ,...""..",,""""" ,.',.."..,"""
<br />
<br />Recreational and Fish and Wildlife Facilities:
<br />Bureau of Indian Affairs ..,...."......,..............,..,...,....,.
<br />National Park Service.. "," ,.. ,.,..,.. '....',.., ,....' ..u,......'
<br />Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife '..,..,..,.......
<br />
<br />Subtotal ,.....', ,..", ......,.." ..,. ,.."",..,..."..",",..,...,"
<br />
<br />Total, Upper Colorado River Storage Project ",...,'
<br />
<br />Financing:
<br />Unobligated balances carried forward .."....,...,.....,...
<br />Construction Revenues ,.. ,.. ,...'," ...", ,....',..".. ,.,....,.. ,.,
<br />Available from prior year funds ,....",..,..,..,....,',........
<br />Transferred to other appropriations "..""..""......"..
<br />Non-Federal advance .."...,....,...",...,.. ,--.,......,' ,..':..,'
<br />Initial underfinancing and undistributed reductIOn
<br />based on anticipated delays ."....,..,.............,"',....,
<br />
<br />Total ",..".,.""..,..,..".......""...,"""',..,..,..,.."."..,"
<br />
<br />Navajo Indian Irrigation Project (funds appropriated
<br />to Bureau of Indian Affairs) ",..""....",.,',.
<br />
<br />Presiden t's
<br />Budget
<br />as revised
<br />April 15" 1969
<br />
<br />$ 3,500,000
<br />3,672,000
<br />
<br />1,400,000
<br />8,000,000
<br />1,350,000
<br />6,300,000
<br />1,675,000
<br />550,000
<br />
<br />$26,447,000
<br />
<br />700,000
<br />1,350,000
<br />950,000
<br />
<br />$ 3,000,000
<br />$29,447,000
<br />
<br />-450,000
<br />-500,000
<br />
<br />-450,000
<br />
<br />-2,047,000
<br />$26,000,000
<br />
<br />$ 3,500,000
<br />
<br />TOT AL CRSP 1970 Construction Program ......".,.."...,.. $29,500,000
<br />
<br />" 'th 'd budget included
<br />NOTE: Other related constructIon Ite.ms In e reVIse d $500000 for the
<br />$7,900,900. for !~,e Fr:yingpan-Arkansas ProJect, Colorado, an ,
<br />
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<br />
<br />B. AUTHORIZED STORAGE UNITS
<br />
<br />(Information relative to Storage Units and participating projects
<br />has been obtained from reports on investigations and activities of the
<br />United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation.)
<br />
<br />The Colorado River Storage Project was authorized for construc-
<br />tion by the U, S, Congress in the Act of April 11, 1956 (70 Stat. 105),
<br />The four Storage Units are comprised of Glen Canyon Dam and Lake
<br />Powell on the Colorado River in Arizona and Utah, Navajo Dam and
<br />Reservoir on the San Juan River in New Mexico and Colorado, Flam-
<br />ing Gorge Dam and Reservoir on the Green River in Utah and Wyo-
<br />ming, and the Curecanti Storage Unit on the Gunnison River in Colo-
<br />rado. The Curecanti Unit consists of three dams and reservoirs -
<br />Blue Mesa, Morrow Point, and Crystal. Combined, the four Storage
<br />Units will provide about 33,583,000 acre-feet of water storage capa-
<br />city and about 1,216,000 kilowatts of installed hydro-electric gener-
<br />ating capability.
<br />
<br />The authorizing Act also provided for the construction of eleven
<br />participating irrigation projects. Ten additional participating projects
<br />have been added by subsequent legislation.
<br />
<br />1. Glen Canyon Storage Unit
<br />
<br />Glen Canyon Dam and Reservoir comprises the key storage unit
<br />and is the largest of the initial four, providing about 80 percent of
<br />both the storage and generating capacity. The concrete arch dam is
<br />710 feet high, and is in northern Arizona on the Colorado River, 12.4
<br />miles downstream from the Utah-Arizona State line and 15.3 miles
<br />upstream from Lees Ferry. (Lees Ferry is the location of the Geologi-
<br />cal Survey stream gaging station and is one mile upstream from the
<br />compact point, Lee Ferry, which divides the Colorado River drainac-€
<br />into an Upper and a Lower Basin.) Glen Canyon Dam is the s€col;d
<br />highest dam in the United States. The reservoir has a capacity of 27
<br />million acre-feet and, when filled, will extend 186 miles upstream on
<br />the Colorado River and 71 miles on the San Juan River. .The power-
<br />house, located at the toe of the dam, has eight generating units with
<br />a total installed capacity of 900,000 kilowatts,
<br />
<br />Recreation Facilities
<br />
<br />Glen Canyon National Recreation Area continues to increase in
<br />popularity. Boating, camping, and fishing top the list of recreational
<br />activities, Visitation to the area has shown a sharp increase during the
<br />past seven years - from 254,000 in 1961 to 654,505 during 1968,
<br />Through September 30 there were 680,225 visits recorded in 1969.
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