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Last year we emphasized that five 'authorized projects in the Colorado River Basin were in inactive status, as a result of the President's directive. This is still true of three of those projedts: Alamo Reservoir on Bill Williams River) Whitlow Ranch Reservoir on Q,ueen Creek) and Mathews Canyon and Pine , Canyon Flood Control Basins on tributarieslof Meadow Valley Wash, Nevada. Senator Malone of Nevada, at a Public Work$ Subcommittee hearing, expressed Nevada.t s interest in early construction of: Mathews and Pine Canyon Dams. As a result, the District has recommended that this project be reconsidered to determine its status in relation to the President's program. As yet we have had no decision from higher authority, Preliminary planning work has started on Painted Rock Flood Control Basin on Gila River - one bftheprojects reported as inactive last year. This unit in the flood-control plan fOr loWer Colorado River is important not only to the United States but to Mexicb. , Now for the fifth project report~d inactive last year ~ the Tucson diversion channel. Local people have decided to construct' their own project. Last year, a review of the Feder~l project indicated that it qualified for construction in the interests of natiQne.l,defense - floods in the area seriously menaced defense installationsr iMea.ntime, however, development in areas needed for rights-of-way was taking iplace rapidly. This meant higher costs to local interests for acquiring ri@J.ts-of-way and relocating highways and utilities. In addition, real.estate intere.sts were exerting pressure for an im. provement that would least interfere with, their plans for subdivisions. Funds were made available for the diverSion channel in the Flood Control Appr~riations Bill for fi.scal 1953 . andilocal people were so advised. However, the Pima County Supervisors decided to goja.head with the County's project. Although the Board members were aware that the County plan prOVided less protection than the Federal plan, they fe~t that it more nearly met the desires of local interests. The local project haS been started, and funds for the Federal project revoked. . We still have a large backlog of authorized Colorado River Basin investigations: A preliminary examination on Colorado River and Tributaries above Lee Ferry) a review on Little Colorado River in the vicinity of Gallup) , surveys on Gila River and tributaries, ~ab Creek, and Virgin River and tributaries) and interim surveys on GilaiRiver in Safford Valley, Animas River, and the Dolores River Basin at and upstr1am from Dolores. In addition, two new investigations have been authorized: An interim survey on lower Agua Fria River and vici*ity, AriZona) and a preliminary examina- tion on Las Vegas Wash, Nevada. Our efforts have been mostly con,finedto a report on the lower Ague. Fria River, where the flood problem demanded tmmediate action if military installa- tions, defense plants and agricultural llmd were to be protected. Last. 'year alone, d.amage from floods totaled more tp.an $3,000,000. We h~e to have our report ready for Congress early in the next session. Tentative plans, which would prOVide complete protection to mos:t; of the area, include a detention basin and an outlet Channel, to intercep't flows from Trilby Wash and adjacent areas, and carry them into lower Ague. Frill. River. Total first cost is estimated at $3,114,000 - about the same as the d_ge that occurred last year alonel -4- '