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<br />LYMAN PROJECT, WYOMlNG <br /> <br />SYNOPSIS <br /> <br />The Lyman reclamation project is contemplated as a means of improving <br />the irrigation water supply, and thus of bettering agricultural production, <br />on lands near the town of Lyman in Bridger Valley, a part of the Upper. <br />Colorado River Basin in southwestern Wyoming, The project plan is corre- <br />lated with a broad plan for the fullest possible development of the land <br />and water resources of the Upper Colorado River Basin. The project is <br />among the first developments recommended by the Upper Colorado River Com- <br />mission for participation in the benefits and revenues of the Colorado <br />River Storage project, the master project in the plan for upper basin <br />development. Additional ini'ormation on the relation of the Lyman project <br />to the storage project andover-all basin development is given in the <br />Bureau of Reclamation report Of September 1950, entitled Colorado River <br />Storage Pro~ect and Partici~ting Pro~ects. <br /> <br />The information contained in this synopsis is substantiated in more <br />detail in appended reports prepared by the Bureau of R.eclamation, Fish <br />and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service, the only Federal agencies <br />sufficiently affected to participate directly in the investigation. <br />Authority to make this report and supporting investigationlil is provided, <br />