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Prom-am FY49 Funds available, $2,945,452. Construction was scheduled for completion for the Fort Peck to ~Jilliston, Fort Peck to Fraser and ,Ihately to Fort Peck Trans- mission Lines. Work was to con- tinue on the Glendive to Miles City line. Accomplishments FY49 Costs to June 30, ~2,ll3,465. The Fort Peck to Williston line was completed as far as the North , Dakota-Montana State Line I and the Glendive to l1iles City line was completed during June. LMR MARIAS PROJECT Description: The Lower }mrias Unit, in north-central Montana, will utilize water from the Marias River to irrigate approx:lJnately 127,000 acres of presently dry farm lands in Liberty, Hill, and Chouteau Coun- ties. The principal conservation and control structure of the }1arias River will be the Tiber Dam, an earthfill structure on the Marias River, 13 miles south and 6 miles west of Chester, Montana. The dam will rise 185 feet above the river bed and have a crest length of 2,880 feet. The reservoir, averaging 1-1/2 miles in width and extending upstream for 25 miles, will have a total storage capacity of 915,000 acre-feet, of which 340,000 acre-feet will be usad for active irrigation storage and 575,000 acre-feet will be for dead and silt storage. Program .EUi2 Funds available, $746,171. Construction was scheduled to start on the Government camp and access road at Tiber Dam site. Accomplishments FY49 Costs to June 30, ~375,362. No construction was undertaken due to a requirement that at least 60 percent of landowners indicate a desire to form an irrigation dis- trict. Eighty percent of the re- quired signatures have been.ob- tained. Some 325,000 acres have been mappad and classified to date. MONTANA PUMPING UNIT Description: The Montana Pumping Unit comprises 35,000 acres of land in 16 subunits scattered along a 165-mile st,etch of the Missouri River from Fort Peck Reservoir in northeastern Montana to the Montana- llorth Dakota State Line. 42.