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5,500 14,200 . " ...... .~ I.' ,,<, '.,'. f.- .' ....~-.j ~ \,,:; INTRODUCTION In the initial feasibility report on the Fryingpan-Arkansas project. prepared by the Bureau of Reclamation and printed as House Document No. 187. 83rd Congress. a 28.000-acre-foot capacity reservoir at the Aspen site on Roaring Fork was proposed to provide replacement storage for the western slope. As a result of extensive studies of alternative sites and conferences among all interests in Colorado and concerned Federal agen- cies. the plan was chmlged to include the larger Ruedi Reservoir instead of the Aspen Reservoir. A supplemental report by the Bureau of Reclama- tion on the Ruedi Dam and Reservoir was printed as House Document No. 353, 86th Congress, 2d Session. The preliminary cost estimate for the dam and reservoir shown in the supplemental report. based on January 1959 prices, is $12.831.000. . The cost of the originally proposed Aspen Dam ana Reservoir was estimated at $7.600.000. The Fr.ringpan-Arkansas project wss analyzed and justified on the basis of this cost for replacement storage. Since the Ruedi Reservoir will perform the same replacement function, that amount was assigned in the supplemental report as a Fryingpan-Arkansas project cost, leaving $5.231,000 of the cost of Ruedi Dam and Reservoir to be allocated among future project purposes on the western slope. Interest during construction was estimated in the report at $664,000 and annual operation and maintenance costs were estimated at $19.700. including $10.500 for recreational facilities. The operating principles previously mentioned provide that operation and maintehance costs of Ruedi Reservoir. shall be borne by eastern mld western slope water users in such proportions as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior. Assuming that the Secretary determines that operation and maintenance costs and costs of interest during construction shall be distributed in the same proportions as construction costs as outlined above, the assignment of all costs and amounts reimbursable would be as shown in the following tabulation. 7,600,000 5,231.000 Interest during construc- tion $664.000 398,400 ) 6 2b5, 00 Annual operation and maintenPillce $19.700 . Item Total. Ruedi nam-and Reservoir Assigned to Fryingpan-Arkansas project Remaining western slope costs Less nonreimbursable costs2J Flood control 117.500 6,000 100 Fish and wildlife 1;757.800 90,200 1,300 Recreation 55,000 10,500 Subtotal .....l.J!30 ,300 96 .200 .Jl ,900 Reimbursable cost 3,300.700 169.400 2.300 1/ The.tentative allocation of nonreimbursable construction costs to project purposes taken from supplemental report on Ruedi Dam and ReserVOir, H. D. 353. 86th Congress. 2d Session. Construction cost $12,831.000 2