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<br />- - '-.-~'~~~V:~':'~'~' <br /> <br />SYNOPSIS <br /> <br />ultimate phase is not constructed, the increased cost could be repaid <br />from initial phase power revenues in about 4 years after the initial <br />phase costs were repaid or it could be repaid from the Upper Colorado <br />River Account. <br /> <br />Correlation of the operation of facilities of existing reclamation <br />and other projects with the construction and operation of the Central <br />Utah project would result in greater utilization of the facilities with <br />mutual advantage to present users and the project. <br /> <br />Net revenues from water used for municipal, industrial, and other <br />miscellaneous uses and from power, in excess of the amount required to <br />repay the respective allocations to these purposes, should be applied <br />in paytnent of the irrigation allocation. <br /> <br />Revenues obtained from irrigators, from users of water for m~nicipal, <br />industrial, and other miscellaneous purposes, and from the sale of elec~ <br />tric enBrgy over the repa"~nt periods outlined in the report would be <br />suffiClent to pay all reimbursable construction costs in the initial <br />phase with the exception of 7.6 percent of the cost or $15,172,740 which <br />could be paid from the Upper Colorado River Account. <br /> <br />One or more conser~ancy districts, formed under the laws of Utah, <br />would be suitable agencies to contract for paytnent of irrigation and <br />munic ipal water cost s. <br /> <br />All future studies of the project, including preconstruction inves- <br />tigations of the initial phase and further investigations of the ultimflte <br />phase, will require the continued close cooperation of the Bureau of <br />Reclamation and other Federal and State agencies having interests in the <br />various aspects of project development. <br /> <br />The Central Utah project could provide additional water for some <br />lands in the Uintah Indian irriga~ion pro,ject. I"",rsuant to recommenda- <br />tions of the Bu~eau of Indian Affairs, this Indian project should parti- <br />cipate in the Central Utah project in accordance with laws applicable to <br />the development of irrigation projects on Indian reservations, including <br />the provisions of the Act of July 1, 1932 (J+7 Stat, 564, 25 tT,S.C: '386 A); <br />provided, ho~ever, that the Indian lands s~ould receive assistance from <br />the Upper Colccr'3.do Riyer Account in t,he sa:ne maD!1.er and to the same degree <br />as oth6r lands in participating projects. <br /> <br />) <br /> <br />1';', <br /> <br />Authorizing legislation for the initial phase should include authority <br />for the Secretary of the Interior to acg,uire lands for recreation and fish <br />a.nd wildlife purposes as required by the N'l.tional Park and Fish and Wild- <br />life Services a~d to e,d:miniflter such lands as ap:propriate to accoJr,plish <br />the P'lrPOSeS intended, Authority should be given the Secretary to con- <br />struct, ope~ate, and ID"Iintain a fish hatchery and Round Y.noll Lake in <br /> <br />17 <br />