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<br />relatively sure, will appropriate for this <br />fiscal year, It is in the President's <br />budget as you know, and has been approved. <br />by the House of Representatives and is now <br />in the Senate. So you can see the Blue Mesa <br />unit, which includes the dam, the powerplant <br />and switchyard, under this control schedule <br />would be completed by June 30, calendar year <br />1966. Now these things will vary somewhat <br />with the plan that was presented in the feasi- <br />bility report but that's the period I believe <br />these appropriations come along that the <br />Bureau can plan on and this was in their <br />original plan - this $1,400,000 was in their <br />original plan. That's not something that we <br />just picked out of a hat this year in the way <br />of appropriations. So by June 3D, 1966, it <br />is anticipated that the Blue Mesa unit, in- <br />cluding the powerplant, the dam and the switch- <br />yard, will be completed. vie have drawn some <br />arrows in here. This blue arrow indicates <br />that water storage will start on that date, <br />that's approximately in October of 1965. Power <br />production, of course, will not come along <br />until the last unit is finished which is the <br />powerplant and the switchyard. The power will <br />become available then in June, 1966, but the <br />water storage will start approximately nine <br />months ahead of the power availability. We <br />couldn't generate any power anyway until we <br />got the reservoir relatively full. <br /> <br />The Morrow Point unit is scheduled to <br />start in 1964 - July I, 1964. It will then <br />be completed in 1968, approximately April or <br />May is the proposed schedule, of 1968. Re- <br />creation development is scheduled to start <br />here in July, 1966, and it will be completed <br />by June 3D, 1969. So what we essentially have <br />for the Blue Mesa and Morrow Point Dams, power- <br />plants, and switchyards, and recreation de- <br />velopments, is a construction period starting <br />two days from now, July 1, 1960, and ending <br />July I, 1969. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />On the Crystal unit we do not have the <br />detailed Bureau plan to run out a similar <br />graph on it, but we expect the Crystal unit <br />to start somewhere in 1966 and take a period <br />of approximately four to five years to com- <br />!)lete. <br /> <br />I <br />