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COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT 7 the Heron No.4 Dam and Reservoir, the EI Vado Dam outlet and for a diversion canal and conduit system. The project will involve the transmountain diversion of western slope water from the San Juan Basin into the eastern slope of the Chama Basin. The initial phase of the project, which is presently authorized, will provide facilities for an average annual transmountain diversion of 110,000 acre-feet of water. Principal users of the water will be the city of Albuquerque and the Middle Rio Grande Con- servancy Distnct. , SEEDSKADEE PARTICIPATING PROJECT, WYOMING Fontenelle Dam, jrincipal feature of the Seedskadee project, is essentially complete and work on the 1O,000-kilowatt powerplant is about. one-half complete. A contract was awarded for in\tlal con- structIOn work on a development farm. The farm will be built on the Seedskadee project and operated under a cooperative agreement among the University of Wyoming, the Soil Conservation Service, and the Bureau of Reclamation. The purpose of the development farm is to determine and demonstrate the most effective, economic, and best adapted water management practices, crop production, and livestock handling techniques and their relationshIp to optimum family sized farm units and a project distribution system. Work progressed on the relocation of U.S. Highway 189 (79 percent completed), on reservoir clearing (100 percent completed), and the powerplant and switchyard (53 percent completed). SILT PART!CIPATING PROJECT, COLORADO Funds were appropriated in fiscal year 1964 to begin construction activities on the Silt project. Funds were expended mainly to pur- chase ri~ht-of-way, to collect desi~n data for Rifle Gap Dam and ReserVOIr and other irrigation facilities, and for the relocation of Colorato State Highway! 325. A contract was awarded for construc- tion of an office and laboratory building to be used during the con- struction period. The principal features include the Rifle Gap Dam on Rifle Creek, which will store water for release into Davie ditch and to Rifle Creek for diversion to the Grass Valley Canal. Water will also be pumped from the Colorado River near Silt at the Silt pumping plant to serve project lands. SMITH FORK ~ARTICIPATING PROJECT, COLORADO Minor construction work and final testing of the Smith Fork feeder canal and diversion dam, Crawford Dam and Reservoir, and the Aspen Canal were completed during the year. The project works consisting of the Crawford Dam and Reservoir, Smith Fork diversion dam, Smith Fork feeder canal,. Aspen Canal and an operating headquarters were transferred to the.' Crawford Water Conservancy District for operation on January 1,' 1964.