BOARD01506

• Board Meeting Date: 5/12/1978
• Description: Agenda, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

As you know, the Curecanti was authorized and approved by Congress in
April of 1956. In July of 1959, the Secretary certified that the Blue
Mesa and Morrow Point features of the Curecanti would be feasibile; and
the Economic Justification Report of 1962 justifying the Crystal features
into the unit was approved~

The Blue Mesa and Morrow Point dams and power plants of the Curecanti
Unit are complete and operational.

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The final feature of crystal Dam and Power Plant is rapidly approaching
completion. The dam has been completed and is now operational. The
power plant, we should be making Our initial bearing runs in the plant
about the 30th of this month. The final relay testing, protective
equipment testing, should take place within the first two weeks of June,
and, hopefully, we. will be on line with power by the end of June.

We have one additional contract going up there, which is the clearing
of the reservoir. This contract should be completed sometime about the
middle of June.

The second important event that we have coming up is the ground'obreaking
for the Ridgway Dam, of the Dallas Creek Project. This project was
authorized in 1968 as a participating project under the Colorado River
Storage Project Act of 1956. The final environmental statement was
filed with CEQ in 1976. The definite plan report was completed in
December 1976.

The 1978 Appropriation Act included $11,775,000 to continue the construc-
tion of the Dallas.:.Creek Project. The President, acting on the recom-
mendation of his R~view Committee, has recommended continued. funding
for the Dallas Creek Project.

The repayment contract was approved by the voters of Ouray, Montrose,
and Delta counties in an election held in December, of 1977. It. was
validated in March of 1977.

At the present time, the Colorado Department of Highways has completed
the design for the relocation of Bighway 550, and it. is preparing to
invite bids for construction. Our relocation agreements with the state
have all been completed.

All rights-of-way fOr the dam have been acquired. We have some rights-
of-way necessary for construction of the state highway that have not been
acquired as yet. The invitations for bid are being withheld pending the
acquisition of this right-of-way.

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We have cooperative planning along the way with the utility companies,
which are the San Miguel Power and the Bell Telephone company, for
relocation of their facilities through the reservoir area.

We have a contract under way for Our field station with Richtig and
Associates, of Kremmling, Colorado, and they have initiated the construc-
tion for the field station and are about 10 percent completed at this
particular time.

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