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..JOO..L I Canyon Dam on September 13th we had the last placement of mass concrete in that structure. That winds up a seven year construction period in the completion of that structure; that is, the essential completion of the dam itself. There yet remains many finishing touches to be put on this dam, including the trashrack struc- ture, elevator shaft; miscellaneous work such as that. The completion contractor is proceed- ing on schedule with the installation of the generators and the turbines and other electrical work in the powerhouse and switchyards. Actual- ly, work under this completion contract is about one-third completed as of the present time. Now the second event was on September 27th when President Kennedy pushed a button at the Salt Lake City airport to initiate the final tests on the No. 1 turbine and generator at Flaming Gorge Dam, which leads right up directly to this third event, and that is that on Monday, November 11th, we initiated limited commercial power generation from Flaming Gorge. We a%e on the line now with one unit from this struc- ture. As far as the work is concerned at Flaming Gorge, the prime contract is about 99 percent finished and we expect it to be completed within the next couple of weeks. Good progress is also being made on the completion contract at the powerhouse and switchyard area. Installation of the second generating unit is substantially com- pleted and the installation is well along on the third unit. I It might be interesting to you people too, that unrestricted access now is being provided across the dam. There is still a little bit of miscellaneous work going on - painting of a few of the structures and things of that nature, but you can now travel across the dam uninterrupted. We expect no significant amount of water to be stored in our storage structures in the next four or five months. We have reached a period of rather low flow in the rivers. I have