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<br />0;)ll533 <br /> <br />Total project conatruction costs, exclusive of specific <br /> <br /> <br />recreation and fish and wildlife facilities. sre now tentatively <br /> <br /> <br />estimated at about $55,000,000. <br /> <br />A benefit-cost analysis has not yet been prepared but it <br /> <br /> <br />is anticipated that the project will have a satisfactory benefit-cost <br /> <br /> <br />ratio. <br /> <br />It is expected that well over. half of the project costs will <br /> <br /> <br />be allocated to municipal and industrial use with those costs to be <br /> <br /> <br />fully repaid with interest by the users. Procedures n~l under <br /> <br /> <br />consideration may require that the costs of project irrigation water used <br /> <br /> <br />for irrigation of lawns, gardens and other uses on small tracts around <br /> <br /> <br />residences be fully reimbursable by tbe users, <br /> <br />Repayment charges for water used for commercial crop <br /> <br /> <br />production will be determined by the usual methods f~r computing <br /> <br /> <br />payment capacity of the irrigation water users. As with other partici- <br /> <br /> <br />pating projects, power revenues from the Colorado River Basin Fund <br /> <br /> <br />-------- -------wi-l-!- -benused- t-o -a&&1$-1o -repay.l.ng--the -coats-allocated - to _the_ .commercial___ <br /> <br /> <br />irrigation. The amount of money needed from the Basin Fund for <br /> <br /> <br />irrigation repayment assistance will probably be considerably less <br /> <br /> <br />than previously estimated. <br /> <br />8 <br />