7808

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7808
• Author: Upper Colorado River Commission.
• Title: Forty-Eighth Annual Report of the Upper Colorado River Commission.
• USFW Year: 1996.
• USFW - Doc Type: Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Copyright Material: NO

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I. Appropriations of Funds by the United States Congress ..................... 64
1. Colorado River Storage Project Appropriation Ceiling .................... 65
Congressional Appropriations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
1. Bureau of Land Management Salinity Control Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
2. Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Department of Agriculture Salinity Control
Program General Investigations and Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
a. Big Sandy River Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
b. Colorado River Simulation System (CRSS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
c. Dolores/McElmo Creek Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
d. Glenwood-Dotsero Springs Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
e. Grand Valley Unit ........................................... 70
f. Lower Gunnison Basin Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
g. Navajo Indian Well Plugging. . . . . . . . . . .'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
h. Paradox Valley Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71
i. Price-San Rafael Rivers Unit ............... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
j. San Juan River Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
k. Uintah Basin Unit ........................................... 72
I. Las Vegas Wash Unit ........................................ 73
Findings of Fact. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

APPENDICES

A. Report of Independent Auditor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
B. Upper Colorado River Commission Budget for Fiscal Year 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
C. Resolution Honoring Barry C. Saunders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
D. By-Laws of Upper Colorado River Commission as Amended

June 18, 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
E. Transmountain Diversions-Upper Colorado River Basin .................... 97

FIGURES

Map of the Upper Colorado River Basin ..................................... ii
Storage in Principal Reservoirs at End of Water Year, Upper Basin .............. 13

1. Lake Powell .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2. Flaming Gorge Reservoir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3. Fontenelle Reservoir .............................................. 16
4. Navajo Reservoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5. Blue Mesa Reservoir .............................................. 18
Storage in PrinCipal Reservoirs at End of Water Year, Lower Basin .............. 19

1. Lake Mead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Colorado River Flow at Lee Ferry, Arizona ................................,. 27
Lee Ferry Average Annual Virgin Flow for Selected Periods .................... 28

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