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.8- Name Location Storage ?ower (1000 ac.ft.) ~1000 kw) Flaming Gor ge Green R. near Utah-Wyo. line 3,940 72 Echo ?ark Green R. at mouth of Yampa' 6,460 200 Glen Canyon Colorado R. above Lee's Ferry 26,000 800 Navajo San Juan R. near mouth of Pine R. 1,200 30 Whitewater Gunnison R. near mouth 880 48 In subsequent stages storage and power reservoirs at the Cross Mountain, Curecanti, and Gray Canyon sites are planned, and power dams at the Crystal site on Gunnison River and Split Mountain site on Green River. Continuing studies may indicate the advisability of considering alternate sites for some of these later units. Ultimat~ storage capacity for the ten reservoirs as now proposed would be 48,555,000 acre-feet and the power in- stallations would generate approximately 9 billion kilowatt hours initially and 6 billion kilowatt hours after full development of the Upper Basin in accordance with Compact provisions. . The new irrigation projects recommended for initial participation in the Colorado River Storage Project are: La Barge Project, Wyoming Seedskadee Project, Wyoming Lyman Project, Wyoming Smith Fork Project, Colorado Silt Project, Colorado Pine River Extension Project, Colorado-New Mexico Florida Project, Colorado-New Mexico Hammond Project, New Mexico Central Utah Project (initial:phase), Utah Emery County Project, Utah The Eden Project in Wyoming, and the ?aonia Project, COlorado, are partially completed projects recommended for. participation. ?rovision has been made in tentative schedules for immediate undertaking of detailed in- vestigations and preconstruction activities at the storage sites and for the initial group of participating projects,. should the Bureau of Reclama- tion receive authorizations requested in bill being prepared by the Upper Colorado River Commission. The Bureau will ,continue study of additional irrigation and multiple-purpose projects to :determine each project's feasi. bility and eligibility for participation in!the benefits of the Colorado River Storage ?roject plan. The Colorado R~ver development fund will provide approximately one-half the funds ne~ded for this investigation program. The Colorado River Storage ?roject:Report and its supplements are now before the Secretary of the Interior, for transmittal to the Bureau of the Budget and Congress with comments of States and Federal agencies. The comments of the States are construed tobs favorable, as are those of the majority of the interested Federal agencies,. The Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, has been critical or the plan, pointing out espe- cially that the participating projects would not repay .their own capital investment costs in full.