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<br />(Jonl j:t~ <br /> <br />38 <br /> <br />San Luis Lake would be connected to the conveyance channel with a <br />side channel about one-half mile long to permit stilvaged water to be <br />diverted into the lakt' for temporary storage, Ilnd to provide for <br />minimum fluctuations of the watl'f slIrlace of the lake. Busic recreation <br />facilities would be prcn-ided ut San Luis Lake at Federal expense, as <br />recommended by the National Park Service in its uppendpd report. <br />The basic recreation plan contemplates facilities for campin~ und <br />improved picnic facilities, including appropriate sllnitntion facilities, <br />planting, fencing, parking areas, und bout-launching- facilities. Ac- <br />cessorv recreation facilities would be constructed With non-Federal <br />funds'- <br />San Luis Lake was privately developed for recrNltion use in the <br />.1940's and was popular, especially for fishing. A drought cycle sturting <br />In the 1950's, however, reportedly caused the Jake to dry up on two <br />different occasions, and the. lake level is and has beell ft'latlv('lv lo\\" <br />most of the time since. Con~equent.ly, recreation use has been so <br />reduced that the existing privnte facilities are no\\" nlHlndolwd and in <br />disrepair. \Vith the desirable \\"uter levels maintnilwd in San Luis <br />Lake, it would ngain become Ii popular recreation area with out- <br />standing visitation nud public usP. <br />Area redevelopment has been included in the plan of development. <br />Alamosa Count)", which has been de~ignated as un economically <br />depressed area in nccordance ,vith section 5(a) of the Area Redevelop- <br />ment Act, Public Law 87-27, constitutes a substlmtial part of the <br />p'roject area. Conejos County, which is immediately udjucent to the <br />area on the south, is also so designated. Construction nud operation <br />of the Di'vlsioll would pro\"ide substantial emllloyment opportunities <br />to these depressed counties by providing emp oyment for ~emi5killed <br />and unskilled labor. It is estimated that llnnunl benefits of $26,000 <br />would be realized by this purpose. <br />The t.otal estimnted construction costs of the Closed Basin Dh;sion <br />on the basis of (January 1963 prices, which are essentially the sallle as <br />current prices, as shown in the Regionnl Direetor's report, nre <br />$8,370,000, not including non-Federlll costs of $125,000 for ucce."sory <br />recreation facilities or costs of lunu acquisition and development of <br />facilities for the Alnmosn N ntiaunl ""ildlife Refuge. Costs of the water <br />salvage fneilities, including pumping instnllatiuns, well field laterals. <br />conveyance channels, find trunsmission (ucilities ure estimate,d at <br />$7,776,000, ~lishak Lakes National Wildlife Refuge at $414,000, and <br />Federal San Luis Lake recreation fucilities ut 8180,000. ..\5 explained <br />hereinafter, 11)) of these costs are considered nonreimbursable and non- <br />returnable. Granting of right-oC-way 011 61.350 acres of Stute lands <br />,,,"Quid constitutp Colorado's l'ontriblltion to the cost of the project. <br />Subsequent to pn'paration oC its apppndl"'d nport tlw Bureau of <br />Sport FishC'rips and \Vildlife advisl"'d us that recrnt ('xpC'rimwl"' in ac- <br />quiring lands in this area indicates that its originlll ('stimutf' of 8100,000 <br />for tlw cost of !lcquiring lnnds for :\Iishak Lnk('s l\utionlll \Vildlifl' <br />Refuge should be in('ren~ed t.o $200,000. Accordingly. the total esti- <br />mated cost of $8.~J70,000 as shown in the nttacllf'd Rt'gional Direct.or's <br />rpport is herC'by r('yi~l'd to $8,470,000 to refll?ct this Ill.ter ('stimah' of <br />cost of land acquisition for the rrCugt.. <br />Axt.'rugp nnnulll Ff'deral costs of operntion !Uld Il1llintennnce nft('r <br />l'ompletion of construction are ('stimated Ilt 81S6!OOO. It is anticipated <br />