WSP05149

• File Number: 8180.800
• Description: Purgatoire River Project
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 9/1/1949
• Author: RJ Tipton
• Title: Engineering Report on Flood Control and Irrigation District with Particular Reference to the Piedmont Bridge Dam and Reservoir Site
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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VEltMEJ"a RECLAMATIaN PROJECT, NEW MEXICO.
VETa MESSAGE
FROM THE PRESIDENT aF THE UNITED STATES
(H. Doc. No. 316)

The Speaker laid before the House the following veto message
from the President of the United states:

TO. THE HOUSE aF REPRESENTATIVES:

I am returning without my approval H. R. 3788, liTo authorize
the Secretary of the Inte~ior to construct, operate, and main-
tain the Vermejo reclamat:t.on project, New Mexico."

The bill would authorize the Secretary of the Interior, througn
the Bureau of Reclamation, to construct, operate, and maintain
the Vermejo reclamation project for the purpose of irrigating
approximately 7,20.0. acres of semi-arid land in Colfax Oounty,
New Mexico; controlling floods; providing for the preservation
and propagation of fish and wildlife; and providing recreation-
al facilities. '

The total cost of this project is estimated to be $2,959,0.0.0.
with tentative allocations as follows:

Reimbursable: Irrigation.
Nonreimbursable: ,.
Sediment control.
Fish and wildlife
Recreation. . . .
Flood control . .

$1,788,0.80.

222,0.0.0.
718,590.
134,88a
95,450.

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The project report shows the benefit-cost ratio to be 1.76 to
I.

It is estimated that the reimbursable costs would be repaid by
the water userS without interest in 67 years (plus a 7-year
development period). This estimate is based upon an economic
analysiS which indicates that the water users will be able to
meet annual water charges of $6.30. per acre. af this amount
$2.61 per acre will be required for operation and maintenance,
thus leaving $3.69 per aCre available for application against
construction charges.

These estimates of the ability of the water users to repay the
costs allocated to irrigation were not officially reviewed by
the Department of Agriculture in the usual manner before the
Cong~ess took action on this bill. Time has not permitted such
review to be made within the period allowed for Presidential
action on enrolled bills. Therefore, I am unable to report to

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