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<br />the dam site. At present, the streets, utilities, housing, and other neces- <br />sary buildings have been completed or are nearly completed. By January, <br />all Bureau of Reclamation personnel will be living at Dutch John in the <br />portion of the townsite set aside for such purposes. <br /> <br />Construction began at Navajo Dam site late in July, following <br />award of the prime contract in June 1958. Prior to that time, the precon- <br />struction surveys had been completed, including the location and testing of <br />the borrow areas where the 30,000,000 cubic yards of earth materials will <br />be obtained. Also, a contract was negotiated for construction by the State <br />of New Mexico of a lO-mile long access highway, to the dam site. That <br />highway is now completed and in use. <br /> <br /> <br />The Bureau of Reclamation office for the Navajo Unit is located <br />at Farmington, New Mexico, but a field camp with 15 temporary houses <br />has been built near the dam site. <br /> <br />The Curecanti Unit on the Gunnison River was authorized by Public <br />Law 485. But as you know, construction can not be undertaken until an addi- <br />tional feasibility analysis is completed for an altered plan necessitated by <br />certain limitations em bodied in the authorizing legislation. <br /> <br />in the <br /> <br />Public Law 485 authorized <br />Upper Colorado River Basin. <br /> <br />construction of <br />They follow: <br /> <br />11 participating projects <br /> <br />In Colorado - Paonia, Smith Fork, Silt, Florida, and Pine <br />Ri ve r Extension projects. <br /> <br />In New Mexico - Hammond Project. <br /> <br />In Wyoming - Seedskadee, Lyman, and LaBarge projects. <br /> <br />In Utah - Central Utah and Emery County projects. <br /> <br /> <br />Immediately following authorization, we contacted the appropriate <br />agencies of each of the four Upper Basin States, and agreement was reached <br />to give priority for advance planning and construction to the paonia Project <br />in Colorado, the Hammond Project in New Mexico, the Seedskadee Project <br />in Wyoming, and the Ve rnal Unit of the Central Utah Project in Utah. <br /> <br />In conclusion, construction ort the Upper Colorado River Basin <br />storage units is progressing well and on schedule. <br /> <br />*****)~* <br /> <br />- 19 - <br />