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<br />IT an 172 <br /> <br />60 <br /> <br />ACTIOXS SUBSEQUEXT TO PROJECT AUTHORIZATlO~ REGARDIXG <br />COXEJOS] RIO GRA.::-OUE, AXD """E"IISUCHE PASS DIYISIOXS <br /> <br />Conejo8 division <br /> <br />The supp!cnwntnl investigntioBs of this divi~ion l'C'quircd by the <br />project uuthorization wpre completed und summllrizpd in Project <br />Hpport- Xo. 5-101-1, dnted April 1947, entitled "Suppl(,Illf'lltlll Report, <br />COl1ejos Division, Sun Luis V nile)" projeel. RIO Grnndt' Basin, <br />Colorado." The irlYcstigutions confirmed tht' ('olle)usion of House <br />Document 693 thnt H two-rcsen~oir plan \\"tlS better thnn n plnn in':' <br />,.oIving OIle hlrge reservoir on the lower fCllclws of till' strPtUl1. They <br />ulso cstablishC'd that u 60,000 Here-foot rl-'sPl'voir at the PlatoI'o site, <br />to be llsed jointly for flood control find irrigntion, would prodde 90 <br />percf'nt of the enduuted benefits of tlw two-re:'>ervoir plllTl nnd would <br />he the most economical resern)ir to construct. Till' report recom- <br />mended construction of tlw Platoro Resen-oir nnd indefinite deferml <br />of further considerntioll of the second resf'n-oir. <br />On the basis of these findinf-,'"5, construction of the Platoro Reservoir <br />wus initiated in 1949 llnd eompleled in 1951. <br /> <br />Rio Grande amllFeminuche Puss dit-isions <br /> <br />Before construction of the lHlthorized """agon \rlwei Gnp Reservoir <br />nnd tlw 'Verninuche Pnss Division could be initiatl'(l, \Vorld 'Var II <br />intl'rvcned. 'Vhen uggrt>ssinl action ill connection with the Rio Grunde <br />lind 'Veminuchc Pass Didsions WllS resunwd following the "-ilr, it. wns <br />found thut cost of project canstruetion hull incrensetl to sueh extent <br />It.'i to grently exceed tlw nuthorized 11monutS. This mllde appropriate <br />the flHW uhwtioll of the (.conomic feasibility of the proposed works~ llnd <br />n sllppl~mentlll report wus completed in December 1955, sumr.nnnzing: <br />the filHhngs to tllllt dHte. At the requcst of the locnl people, tIlL"; report. <br />has not 1>('cn trunsmitted to Congress. <br /> <br />PUBLIC LAW 415 <br /> <br />Public Law 415, S2nd Cong-re8-", 2d Session, appro,"ed .June 27, 1952, <br />provides that the excess lands pro,-ision of the Federal ReclaIlmtion <br />laws shall not be upplicll.ble to tHnds or to the ownership of lands <br />which recei,'c H supplemelltul or regulated supply of water from the <br />Sun Luis Vnlley Project with the proviso, howe,-er, thut in lieu of the <br />acrenge limitation ('ontained in such pro,rision, no Inndowner shall <br />receive from such project U slIpplemelltlll or reg-ulnted water supply <br />greater in qUllntity than is rellsonubly nece.ssllry to irrig:tlte 480 acres <br />of land sen'ed by such project. <br /> <br />CLOSED B.\SI~ DIVISlO:\ <br /> <br />The potentiality of slllnlge for beneficial eOllsumptive IIse of Closed <br />Ba~il1 waters has loug been rpcognized. This hns resulted in the under- <br />t lking of '"nrioll:-> inn.:;tigations of. and reports on, the (juuntity and <br />qUlllity of Clo~ed lhsin walers alld pInns for deli,+ery to the Rio <br />Grande under terms of the Hio Grllllde compact of the portion of <br />those waters deemed s\l:;ceptible to sah+l1ge. Following are brief sum- <br />maries of the most pertinent of tho:,€' stu<lic$: <br />