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084'9 . 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,OOO-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 changed 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 ~relindnary cost estimate for the dam and reservoir shown in the supplemental report, based on January 1959 prices, is $12,831,OOO. The cost of the originally proposed Aspen Dam and Reservoir was esti- mated at $7,600,000. The FlJ'ingpan-Arkansas project was analyzed and justified on the basis of this cost for replacement storage. Since the Ruedi Reservoir will perform the s~e 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. This assignment is in accordance with ~rinciple 3 of the operating principles previously mentioned. 'lnterest during construction was estimated in the supplemental report at $664,000 and annual operation and maintena~ce costs were estimated at 019,700, including $IO,500 for recreational facilities. The operating principles provide that operation and maintenance costs of Ruedi Reservoir shall be borne by eastern and western slope water users in such proportions as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior. Assuming that the Secretary deternines that operation and maintenance costs and costs of interest during con~truction shall be dhLrlbuted. -iff-tliesomenproportions as construction costs as outlined above, the assignment of all costs and amounts reimbursable would be as shown in the following tabulation. . ~ Total, Ruedi Dan and Reservoir Assigned to Fryingpan-Arkansas project Remaining western slope costs Less nonreimbursable costall Flood control 117,500 6,000 100 Fish and wildlife 1,757,1300 90,200 1,300 Recreation 55.000 10.500 Subtotal 1.930.300 96.200 11.900 Reimbursable cost 3,300,700 169,400 2,300 11 TIle 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. Cons tructi on cost $12,83I,OOO Interest during construc- tion $664,000 Annual operation and maintenance $19,700 7.600.000 5,23l,OOO 398.400 265,600 5.500 14,200 2