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<br />make up the 75,000,000 for the decade we started <br />filling Lake Powell, has been accumulating stor- <br />age. The lower basin used about 8.1 million <br />acre-feet and about 8.9 goes down. There is <br />going to be an inflow below Lee Ferry so they <br />will continue to gain something over a million <br />acre-feet. <br /> <br />This is a picture of the Grand Canyon to <br />give you a little mood here for the operating <br />criteria subject which has been well covered in <br />the previous agenda item. I won't conunent on <br />it further. <br /> <br />To bring you up to date on the water market- <br />ing situation on the Storage project reservoirs, <br />this has become a very significant function to <br />put this water to work and also as a revenue <br />addition to the Storage Project. We have con- <br />tracts now - the plant which you see is the one <br />at Four Corners which derives its water from <br />the San Juan River - with the utah Mining and <br />Construction Company, water for units 6 and 7; <br />Public Service Company of New Mexico for addi- <br />tional development; Southern Union Gas company, <br />a minor amount for their oil field and gas field <br />use. <br /> <br />Moving over to Lake Powell, the Salt River <br />Agricultural Improvement project power district <br />has contracted with the Secretary for diversion <br />of 40,000 acre-feet, with a consumptive use not <br />to exceed 34,100 acre-feet, for a large plant in <br />the vicinity of page. <br /> <br />An additional contract which has been <br />executed since I spoke to you last is (this <br />picture doesn't relate to this) for power devel- <br />opment at the base of Kaiparowits Plateau, <br />102,000 acre-feet of water out of Utah's alloca- <br />tion which is available until shortly after the <br />turn of the century for major thermal power <br />development there. <br /> <br />This is a picture of Fontenelle Dam. The <br /> <br />I <br /> <br /> <br />,. <br /> <br />I <br />