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. . . CHAPTER II COMPREHENSIVE PLAN All the joint costs for construction, interest during construction, and operation, maintenance, and replacement that are allocated to recrea- tion and fish and wildlife would be nonreimbursable. In this report all of the specific costs of recreation also have been assumed to be nonreim- bursable. Some of these costs, however, may be paid by non-Federal public bOdies who, under the terms of agreements with the Secretary of the Inter- ior, may avail themselves of the opportunity to manage and develop recrea- tional facilities and assume the costs of operation and maintenance. Irrigation Repayment The project irrigators would pay toward project costs to the full extent of their ability as previously discussed. Of their total annual payments of $658,000. approximately $287,000 would be required for irriga- tion operation, maintenance, and replacement costs and the remaining $371,000 would be available for payment of irrigation construction costs. Thus over a 50-year period the irrigators could pay $18,550,000 or 17 percent of the construction costs allocated to irrigation. The revenueS would be collected by conservancy district organizations which would be formed to act as the project contracting and operating organizations. It has been assumed that two districts would be formed (one in Colorado and one in Utah) and that they would operate all the project facilities except the Juniper powerplant which would be operated by the Bureau of Reclamation as part of the Colo- rado River Storage project power system. Payments toward project construction costs allocated to irrigation would be made from ad valorem tax revenues collected by the conservancy dis- tricts. The tax revenues probably would be obtained from an estimated I-mill levy on the assessed values of all property in the districts' boundaries. Since the districts have not been formed, no estimate has been made of the amount of the probable tax revenues. The amount, however, is expected to be relatively small in comparison to the irrigation allocation. The construction costs allocated to irrigation and not paid by the irrigators or from ad valorem tax revenues would be paid from power reve- nues apportioned to Colorado and Utah from the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund. Disregarding the small amount which would be received from the ad valorem tax levies, approximately $101,292,000 would be required from the fund. Of this amount, $32,413,000 would be required from Colorado's appor- tionment of funds and the balance of $68,879,000 from Utah's apportionment. The requirements of funds for each State are based on the proportion of the project acreage in each State. Studies indicate that apportioned revenues from the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund to complete repayment of the Juniper project irrigation costs would be available to Colorado no sooner than about year 2023 and to Utah no sooner than about year 2043. These dates are based on the assump- tion that the Juniper project would be given pri~rity in each State over 54