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-............ irrigation of. some lands over in Nebraska in accordance with the Republican River Compact. There the topographic surveys for the Wray Reser- voir have been completed and the planimetering and other detail work on those planetable sheets in order to prepare area capacity curves and" I other engineering data for that reservoir are well under way. Ne expect. that the report we will write there will be a de'init. plan report ..,au..- it is an authorized ptOj~cti but ~a expect that. that report will ask for affirmation of the 1944 authorization since it has been SO long since the project was authorized. There has been no activity since our last meeting on the st. Francis Unit. Another one within Colorado but handled out of the McCook, Nebraska office. In the North Platte Projects Office at Casper which is affected with Colorado work by a transmission line from Cheyenne to Hayden or Hayden to Cheyenne I guess would be the better way to express it here, we received ten bids on that transmission line which is an interconnection with the Upper Colorado River Storage and the eastern portion of the transmission grid in the Missouri River Basin. We had ten bids, very good bids, and they are under analysis and we expect the contract to be awarded there in the very near future. l'le were very pleased with these bids; they were quite a little under the Engi- neer's estimate. As I reported at the last meeting, we have established a construction office in Cheyenne and Mr. Greenlaw, the Construction Engineer, has an office there and is establishing his work and getting his crews together, so as soon as this contract is awarded that office will be acti- vated further and actually pursue the construc- tion. I Our South Platte Projects Office at Loveland, which is largely an operation office as you know for the ColoradO-Big Thompson Project and trans- mission distribution works and powerplants of