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<br />The Compact also created an interstate administrative agency <br /> <br />to be known as the Upper Colorado River Commission. <br /> <br /><::> <br />N <br />00 <br />I-" <br /> <br />COLOR!\DO RIVER STOR!\GE PROJEC~ ACT <br /> <br />In 1956 the Congress enacted the Colorado River Storage Pro- <br />ject Act (70 Stat. 105). This Act authorized the com _ruction of <br /> <br />a comprehensive, multiple-purpose basinwide, water resource devel- <br />pment plan known as the Colorado River Storage Project and Partici- <br /> <br />ating Projects. <br /> <br />The storage units which were authorized are Flaming Gorge, <br /> <br />~<avajo, Glen Canyon, and Curecanti. The irrigation projects, re- <br />I <br />iferred to as participating projects, which were authorized are: <br />I <br />'Central Utah (initial phase). Emery County, Florida, Hammond, La <br /> <br />Barge, Lyman, paonia (including the Minnesota unit), Pine River <br /> <br />Extension Seedskadee, Silt, and Smith Fork.. A brief des~ription <br />of these storage units and participating projects follows: <br /> <br />STOR!\GE UNITS <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Curecanti <br /> <br />The Curecanti unit consi.sted of a reserv'oir on the Gunnison <br /> <br />. . <br /> <br />. . <br /> <br />River formed by the Blue l,lesa Dam belm., the town of Gunnison, Colo. , <br /> <br />. <br />. . <br /> <br />::: ::r:::e:a:::~s::::\V r:::::~i::d r:::::::v:::e::::::~d:: ::e (;itA- <br /> <br /> <br />final plan, only the Blue Mesa and the Morrow Point units were built. ~. <br /> <br />F~i.ng Gorge <br />The principal feature of the Flaming Gorge unit is the dam, \Vhich <br /> <br />will be located on the Green River in, Utah, about 32 miles north of <br />, <br />I~ <br />Vernal, and which ./;",1 _ J:,,,, a concrete, gravity-type structure rising <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />440 feet above the river. Flaming Gorge Reservoir formed by the <br /> <br />l4 <br /> <br />. ..' <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />,t,:~ <br />