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From 1909 through 1961, an estimated total of20,972 people visited Rainbow Bridge. When access to the bridge by water was made available through completion of the dam in 1963, visitation rapidly increased. In 1966,20,468 people visited Rainbow Bridge, almost as many people as had visited the site during the previous 53 years. During 1989 there were 255,420 visitors at Rainbow Bridge, 2. FLAMING GORGE STORAGE UNIT Flaming Gorge Dam and Powerplant were completed in 1963, A contract was awarded to uprate the Flaming Gorge Dam generators. Up rating of the units began in the fall ofl990 with completion scheduled for the summer of 1992. This uprate will increase the plant nameplate capacity from 108 megawatts (MW) to about 151 MW. Plans have been developed for the visitor center and dam tour areas to be retrofitted to make the facilities fully accessible to persons with disabilities. Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, which surrounds the Flam- ing Gorge Dam and Reservoir, recorded 1,700,870 visitors during 1989 (latest available figures). The site is administered by the Ashley National Forest, Fishing is an important recreational activity on both the reservoir and in the Green River below the dam, 3. NA V AIO STORAGE UNIT The major purposes of Navajo Dam and Reservoir are to regulate the flows of the San Juan River and to provide a water supply for the author- ized Navajo Indian Irrigation Project near Farmington, the San Juan- Chama Participating Project in the Rio Grande Basin and the Hammond Participating Project, all in New Mexico. Part of the water is also used for municipal and industrial purposes in northwestern New Mexico. Navajo Dam was completed in 1963. 4. WAYNE N. ASPINALL STORAGE UNIT The Wayne N. Aspinall Storage Unit includes three major dams and power plants in the canyon of the Gunnison River downstream from Gunnison, Colorado and upstream from the Black Canyon of the Gun- nison National Monument. The three dams are Blue Mesa, Morrow Point, and Crystal, Uprating of Morrow Point Dam generator number one was completed during the water year. Testing of the uprated generator revealed that the maximum capacity was only 55 MW instead of the expected 78 MW. The contract was terminated for non-performance, Reclamation is now 37