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of installed capacity in all existing generating plants. The authorized CRSP powerplants will add onl..y 1,300,000 kilowatts of capacity. Thus, non-Fed- eral organizations will have to build much more generation capacity than they now have if the pyramiding power needs of the intermountain area are to be met. RECREATION BII1iEFITS A BONUS Recreation development on the new CRSP lakes will provide unexcelled opportunities and benefits to the region and the Nation. Lake Powe11 is now rising--creeping up the face of Glen Capon Dam and lengthening up the deep and winding Glen Canyon to lap on spectacular rust-red to blazing red cas~on wa11s. The 2`7 million a~cre- foot lake will be 186 miles long. Its surface area will equal that of Lake Mead. But it is long and narrow with hundreds of side canyons awaiting ex- ploration. Boaters will always find Lake Powell a fascinating, scenic area for exploration. In 1963, 8 million game fish were planted in Lake Powell with fishing scheduled to begin in 1964. Lake Powell is administered by the National Park Service as the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. To serve the public while the lake is filling, temporary boat ramps and. re- lated facilities are already developed at Wahweap near-Glen Canyon Dam. Nine sites will be fully developed over a period of years to assure complete public access to Lake Powell. Floating docks and other facilities are being installed in the Bridge Creek arem of Lake Powell to serve the thousands who will come by boat to visit the heretofore nearly inaccess- ible Rainbow Gridge National Monument --home of the world"s largest natural bridge. At the Flaming Gorge and Navajo Reservoirs, the National Park Service, working with the Bureau of Reclamation U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and appropriate State and local agencies is similarly developing recreational sites. Fish are being planted, boat ramps built, picnic and camping grounds provided. On the participating projects where smaller storage reservoirs are built, appao- priate recreational facilities are planned by the National Park Service and the basic needs for boating, fishing, etc., provided. These smaller reservoirs add to the total recreational opportunities, and all will be well patronized by thousands of people each year. E~camples to date are the Steinaker, Paoni.a, and Crawford Reservoirs on the Vernal Unit, Central Utah Pm jest, and the Paonia Project and the Smith Fork Project in Colorado, respectively. On these smaller reservoirs, recreational activity is admin- istered b9 Federal, State, or local public agencies. UPPER BASiN GROWTH ASSURED Benefits from the CRSP arriving in 1963 are just a beginni~. The Upper Basin is assured of steady, stable, rapid growth, but not booming growth with all the problems that inevitably occur. The key to the future of the Upper Basin is the control and use of the waters of the Colorado River. What has been the course of events in the intervening years, and where do we now stand? Constriction of the quthorized storage units of the CRSP was first in order of impvrtnace. The job was tackled immediately. Glen Canyon Dam was started with award og the prime constriction contract in April 1957. Contracts for Flaming Gorge and Navajo Dams were awarded in June 195$. And in 1962 work was started on the Cure- baati. Storage Unit with contra,etirg for Blue Mesa Dam, the first of three dams in that unit. This year, construction of Morrow Point Dam, the second of the three dams, was gotten underway. CRSP Storage Units have prime importance in the basinwide program. They assure reg- ulation of the Upper Colorado River system. The nearly 35 million acre-feet of storage they provide wi11 assure that the Lower t~i>:oradc River Basin states will receive their share of Colorado River water every year. Because of this, extensive diversions for comsnmptive uses of water throughout ~o-