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electrical works, electrical facilities, is about 80 percent completed at this time. I Also, I believe most of you are aware of, and many of you attended the dedication at Flcuning Gorge in August when Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson attended and was principal participant. The Flaming Gorge powerplant is meeting its firm contract loads. It is continuing to be drawn down. On November 29th it had a total in storage of 1,290,000 acre-feet. Going on to Navajo Dam, discharge is about at the rate of 500 c.f.s. The reservoir is slowly receding. On November 29th it had in storage about 409,000 acre-feet of water. We are getting into a rather critical period as far as reservoir storage is con- cerned. It is estimated at the present time in the next six months' period that the inflows will exceed our water requirements by about 1/2 million acre-feet. We'll reach a very critical period in about March or April of this coming year. I As far as construction work is concerned on our Curecanti Project, Blue Mesa Reservoir and Dam and Powerplant is presently about 80 percent completed; that is, on the prime contract. The work since the middle of Novem- ber has essentially stopped, that is, the earthfill, because of inclement weather. At Morrow Point Dam the work is not progressing quite as fast as we would like to see it. There has been some difficulty in rock slides, particularly on the left abutment and consid- erable time has been spent trying to correct this situation. A lot of rock bolting and things of that nature have been done. We have completed all of our core drilling on the Crystal Reservoir. It is anticipated that in January 1965 a contract will be let for a rather difficult access road into this third dam of the Curecanti Unit. We anticipate that by late fall we will be calling for construc- tion of this dam.