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Social Resources Aerial view of Dominguez Damsite To preserve and enhance the quality of lite through planning, construction, operation and management of the CRSP and par- ticipating projects, social assessment has become an integral part of Water and Power's program. Through an emphasis on planning consideration of social effects begins early in project formulation. In addition to the social effects of economic and employment opportunities provided through irrigation, power genera- tion, and industrial water, the development of land and water for municipal, recrea. tion, and fish and wildlife purposes are also affected. Preservation and enhance- ment of the affected population's social well-being are both emphasized in the social assessment process. Major in-house studies of the Animas La. Plata Project and the Municipal and In- dustrial Water System of the Central Utah Project's Bonneville Unit were completed in FY 1979. A 4-part social economic con- tract for dealing with the Centrai Utah Project's Ute Indian Unit alternatives was completed. 16 Sailing Navajo Lake Major in-house studies of the West Divide Project were nearing completion. San Miguel Project investigations were in proc- ess while Glen Canyon and Blue Mesa power project investigations were initiated during FY 1978. Mutualiy enhancing public involvement and social assessment pro- grams have been expanded to ail planning investigations. Cultural Resources Everything's just ducky Cultural resource management programs continued to expand in the Upper Colo- rado Region in planning, construction, and operation and maintenance phases of the Coiorado River Storage Project and par- ticipating projects. The cultural resources program is based on responsibilities given Federal agencies by Executive Order 11593, "Protection and Enhancement of the Cultural Environment" of 1971, the Na- tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966, and Water and Power Resources Service Regulations 43 CFR 422, "Procedures for the Identification and Administration of Cultural Resources." Planning Dominguez Project - Study and analysis were compieted for the cultural resources survey on the Dominguez Projecl. Under contract to the Grand River Institute of Grand Junction, Colorado, 205 sites and/or site loci were located. The sites range from the archaic to historic time periods. West Divide Project and Upper Colorado Resource Study - Analysis and study on compieted cultural resource investigations in these two areas continued under con- tract to the Laboratory of Public Arch- aeology, Coiorado State University, Fort Collins, Coio. On the West Divide Project,