BOARD01601

• Board Meeting Date: 7/6/1962
• Description: Meeting and resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

About $6.5 million will be spent by the
Federal Government for the recreational
facilities and for a fish and wildlife manage-
ment program from 1964 to 1968 on the Curecanti
Unit.

Recreation and fish and wildlife facilities
and programs are also developed on the smaller
participating projects, commensurate with the
opportunities presented. The Bureau of Recla-
mation, working with the appropriate Federal
and state agencies concerned, builds or arranges
for the building of the basic recreational
facilities and for fish and wildlife develop-
ments, with the administration, operation, and
maintenance of those facilities taken over,
eventually, by appropriate local or state
agencies.

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As most of you know, the first of the
transmission line construction contracts was
awarded early in 1961. Throughout about a
year's time from the date of that first con-
tract, other contracts were let which covered
the construction of the Storage Unit trans-
mission lines that were not in question--that
is, the lines that everyone concerned agreed
should be built by the Federal Government.
These lines included the 138-kv link from
Flaming Gorge Dam to Oak Creek; the 115-kv
lines from Gunnison to Montrose, by way of the
Curecanti Substation, with connections at Blue
Mesa and Morrow Point damsites; and the 230-kv
lines from Glen Canyon Dam to Shiprock and
Shiprock to Curecanti. Construction goes
ahead on all of these lines.

Beginning in October 1961 and extending
into February 1962, a series of intensive dis-
cussions and negotiations were held between the
Bureau of Reclamation and the five private
power companies regarding the arrangements for
transmitting Storage Project power and the
interconnections with the adjacent Federal
systems and with the private company systems.
This Water Board is quite familiar with the

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