8039

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8039
• Author: Upper Colorado River Commission.
• Title: Fifteenth Annual Report of the Upper Colorado River Commission.
• USFW Year: 1963.
• USFW - Doc Type: Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Copyright Material: NO

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IX. Colorado River Storage Proiect and
Participating Proiects

A. APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS BY THE
UNITED STATES CONGRESS

On January 17, 1963 President Kennedy in his annual budget
message to the Congress recommended that Congress appropriate
$103,409,000 to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund for fiscal
year 1964. On March 28, 1963 the President in a communication
to the Speaker of the House of Representatives recommended a
supplemental appropriation of $4,000,000 to the Upper Colorado
River Basin Fund for fiscal year 1963 because contractor earnings
on Flaming Gorge and Glen Canyon Dams and Powerplants have
been higher than anticipated in 1963. An offsetting decrease of
$4,000,000 in the fiscal 1964 budget currently under consideration
by the Congress was also recommended. This decrease was made
in the budget item for the Loan Program of the Bureau of
Reclamation, not in funds for the Colorado River Storage Project.
This communication was printed as House Document No. 89, 88th
Congress, First Session.

After House Doc. No. 89 became effective the 1964 budget
items for the Colorado River Storage Project were adjusted, but
the total to be appropriated remained the same as it was in the
President's January 17th budget. The principal adjustments of
budget items consisted of . a reduction of $300,000 for Flaming
Gorge, a reduction of $3,759,000 for Glen Canyon, an addition of
$3,473,118 for transmission lines, and an addition of $400,000
for the Florida Project.

On April 30, 1963 the President submitted a proposed amend-
ment to the budget for fiscal year 1964 involving a decrease in the
amount of $2,622,000 for the Department of the Interior to defer
construction of irrigation facilities of the Seedskadee participating
project pending final recommendations of the Wyoming Reclamation
Projects Survey Team. The House of Representatives printed this
communication as House Document No. 109.

Hearings before the Appropriations Committees of the Congress
were not held until June 17, 1963. On that date Governor Love,
Colorado; Governor Campbell, New Mexico; Governor Clyde, Utah,
and Governor Hansen, Wyoming, appeared before the Public Works