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<br />UNITED STATES <br />DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR <br />BUREAU OF RECLAMATION <br />REGION 4 <br />Post Office Box 360 <br />Salt Lake City 10, Utah <br /> <br />January 12, 1951 <br /> <br />To: <br /> <br />Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation <br /> <br />From: <br /> <br />Regional Director <br /> <br />Subject: <br /> <br />Supplemental Report on the Florida Project, Colo. <br /> <br />Herewith is my report on the potential Florida project in the <br />San Juan River Basin in southwestern Colorado. It is a supplement to the <br />comprehensive report, entitled Colorado River Stora~e Project ~Partici- <br />pating Projects, revised in December 1950. <br /> <br />The Florida project is one of a group of developments described <br />as participating projects in the report of the Regional Director on the <br />Colorado River Storage project and participating projects, and is recom- <br />mended in that report for authorization. The attached report provides <br />informtion on the Florida project in greater detail than does the compre- <br />hensive plan report. <br /> <br />Of the 18,950 acres that would be irrigated by the project, <br />1,000 acres are in Indian ownership. The plan outlined in the report <br />provides that non-Indian irrigators would pay their allocated costs for <br />operation, maintenance, and replacements, and would pay up to their <br />ability on construction costs for a period of 50 years. Costs allocated <br />to Indian lands either would be paid by Indians in the same proportion <br />that non-Indian payments were mde or these Indian costs would be adjusted <br />or eliminated in accordance mth provisions of the Leavitt Act of July 1, <br />1932 (47 Stat. 564). All construction costs allocated to irrigation that <br />were not repaid or eliminated would be paid from the Upper Colorado River <br />Account. If construction of the project is authori7.ed, the provisions of <br />the Leavitt Act should be extended by appropriate legislation to cover all <br />project costs allocated to Indian-owned lands. <br /> <br />The plan also provides that operation, maintenance, and replace- <br />ment costs allocated to fish and wildlife conservation would be nonreimburs- <br />able. This also would require special legislation. <br /> <br />JJ C::J' <br />";JtI>,. . <br /> <br />/;/ <br />;(A-4--7-1?--.... Z--- <br />