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1 since it was a~thorized by the 1958 Flood Con- trol Act. This project, as most of you know, just briefly, is the multiple-purpose reservoir project which will be located on the purgatoire River about fOur miles above the city of Trini- dad. It is designed for flood control, irriga- tion and recreation and includes storages for those purposes. The total storage is about ll4,500 acre-feet. The dam will be approxi- mately 6700 feet long and about 200 feet high above streambed. As I said, we have started and continued our advance planning. We can, I am glad to say, report satisfactory progress at this time. 1 There have been a number of problems in connection with this project; these problems, however, have not caused us to delay in any way whatsoever the advance planning for con- struction. We have been cooperating closely with the Bureau of Reclamation, the state Water Board, Fish and wildlife Service, both state and federal, and local interests, in bringing this project to conclusion. We hope for a very successful conclusion. We foresee the way things are going now and we believe that we will be in a position to ask for construction start in fiscal year 1964. We hope to get the first element of the job underway, which will be the outlet works, in March, 1964, and have the job completed by 1968. This, of course, assumes that the funds will be made available for a new construction start in 1964; it assumes that a repayment contract will be negotiated, consummated with the water users; it assumes that the city of Trinidad will fur- nish a cash contribution of about 4~ percent of the costs allocated to flood control; and I believe those will be all the items that con- struction will be contingent upon. We are advancing, as I say. Everything is coming along very well. The operating principles which were mentioned in a previous report, I believe, are being worked out. I know that a lot of effort is being given to