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<br />CpLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT'
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<br />a swimming float! ,and wayside,.interpretive exhibits, An extension
<br />of the boat-launching ramp was completed in fiscal year 1966. '
<br />, Developments in Utah include~
<br />(1) A floating marina in the Aztec Creek arm of Lake Powell on
<br />the route, to Rainbow Bridge National Monument.
<br />(2) Boat ramps, campgTounds, picnic areas, marinas, and asso.
<br />ciated facilities at Halls Crossing and Bullfrog Basin. The State
<br />of Utah has rMeiVed a Federal grant to build a paVed highway into
<br />Bullfrog Basin. '
<br />(3) Boat launching and marina facilities at Hite, Utah.
<br />(4) The il).stallation of buoys and navigational aids.
<br />The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, in cooperlltion with the
<br />fish and game departments of Arizona and Utah, performed the follow-
<br />ing during fiscal year 1966: ' '
<br />(1) 'Plantad 2:1 million rainbow fingerlings in Lake PowelL
<br />(2) Contitmed joint fishery investigations to obtain the basic
<br />information :which is needed to sustain superior fishing at this
<br />reservoir.
<br />"The. above-mentioned studies were initiated in 1963 and. will con-
<br />tinuethrough1969. Other species of fish that have been planted.in '
<br />Lake Powellin past years in addition to rainbow trout are largemouth
<br />bass, Kamloop tfout, Kokanee salmon, and black crappie.
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<br />TRANSMISSION DIVIsION
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<br />The transmis~ion division includes transmission lines, substations,
<br />switchyards, an([ other facilities to provi<;le for the interconnection of
<br />storage project powerplants with each other, with participating project
<br />power facilities, witlr other Federal powerplants, an,d with the electrical
<br />fllcilities of theniajor investor.owned power companies in tl1e Colorado
<br />River Basin arell so tl1",t the greatest practicable amount of firm power
<br />and, ,en, ergycan be produce,d and,deliv,ered to the ,load centers for sale,'
<br />Oompleted features, are to be operated bil" the Government. The
<br />principal featur~s ,are located in no~thern and central Arizonll,western
<br />Colorado, northwestern New MeXIco,northeastern U tal1, and SQutl1.
<br />eastern Wyomi4g.
<br />, Two significa\lt historical events took pi lice during fiscal year 1966 .
<br />with regard to jtransmission line construction. On October 4, 1965,
<br />the longest single 345-kilovolt .transmission line in the United States
<br />was put intoseryice by the Bureau of Reclamation. The ,238,mile-
<br />long line from Glen Canyon Dam to Pinl\acle ,Peak substation near
<br />Pl10enix is not,outy the longest single section of ,345-kilovolt line intl1e
<br />Nation, but it is the first extra-high-voltage line built by tl1e Bureau
<br />of :Reclamation: The se,cond newsworthy event took place when the,
<br />Hayden-Archer' transmission line was placed in service in J lInuary
<br />1966. , This 1~6-mile, 230ckilovolt transmission line in northern
<br />Colorado andsbuthern Wyoming connected the transmission systems
<br />of the Burean!s Colorado :River storllge project and its Missouri,
<br />River Basin project.
<br />Some of the ,major facilities still under construction as of June 30,
<br />1966, were as follows:
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<br />TrfLusmission:lines: .
<br />Curecanti-PQuchaj 230 kilovolts
<br />Poncha-Midw,a,y",230 kilovolts
<br />Glen Canyon-Flagstaff No. 2J 845
<br />kilovolts. .
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<br />Substations';
<br />Skito Top
<br />Flagstaff
<br />Archer
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