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water for Grand Junction and generate At the time of authorization Congress The Project is a likely "new start." the Colorado River Storage Project. 5~ million kilowatt-hours annually. did not provide construction funds. It is not a participating part of Newspapers of December 3, 1952, reported that the Secretary of the Interior had submitted the Colorado River Storage Project Report to the Bureau of the Budget and had recommended delaying construction of Echo Park and Split Mountain Dams pending further study, because of their location in Dinosaur National Monument. The Colorado River Storage Project consists of 10 major dams on the Colorado River and main tributaries, plus as many powerp1ants. It would provide river regulation, power production, and benefits to irrigation through power revenues used to assist in paying the costs of related irrigation projects, that is, "participating projects," using Upper Colorado River Basin water . The participating projects are: Wyoming: Eden, La Barge, Seedskadee, and Ly:man. Colorado: Paonia, Smith Fork, and Silt. Colorado-New Mexico: Pine River Extension, and Florida. New Mexico: Hammond. Utah: Central Utah (initial phase) , Emery County, and Gooseberry. Six of the large reservoirs would lie all or partly in Utah; one partly in Wyoming; five all or partly in Colorado; one partly in Arizona; and one in New Mexico. The key reservoir of the Storage Project would be the 26,000,000 acre-foot Glen Canyon Reservoir, of outstanding importance not only to the Upper but to the Lower Basin. All Upper Basin States have approved the storage plan as essential to full use of the waters apportioned to the Upper Basin by the Colorado River Compact. In the Lower Basin, the Bureau has started the 71-mi1e Second Barrel of the San Diego Aqueduct, with funds supplied by the Navy Department. Con- tractors are at work on the first half and the award and notice to proceed on the remainder will probably be given in a few days. In the Coachella Division, All-American Canal System, the Bureau is completing the distribution system to 9,600 acres between Mecca and Thermal, and preparing specifications for the distribution system to 4,600 acres centering 4 miles southwest of Indio. Under a supplemental contract of March 4, 1952, the Imperial Irriga- tion District on May 1, 1952 assumed care and operation of the All-American Canal headworks and desi1ting basins at Imperial Dam, and the section of the Canal innnediate1y downstream. -13-