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14S0 national organizations. The Board's Chief Engineer was invited to be a member of the Advisory Committee. Upper Basin Developments Cash revenues from the Colorado River Storage Project operations during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, provided for the first large payment ($4.9 million) on invest- ment principal. Total funds paid to the fed- eral treasury for the year were $18.5 million. The State of Wyoming published a report entitled "Water and Related Land Resources of the Green River Basin, Wyoming." This is the first of a series of reports to be made on water needs and resources in various river basins of Wyoming for the purpose of deve- loping a State Water Plan. The report pre- sented several alternative plans whereby Wyoming's Green River Basin water re- sources would be developed. These alterna- tives were discussed in public hearings in Wyoming during December 1970. Of inter- est was the opposition expressed in the hear- ings by Wyoming residents to water resource developments due to environmental consid- erations. Initial generation at the Morrow Point Power Plant, a feature of the Curecanti Unit of the Colorado River Storage Project, began in December 1970, The plant, located on the Gunnison River in Colorado, will have a power plant capacity of 120,000 kilowatts when Crystal Dam is constructed down- stream to re-regulate river flow, The con- struction of Crystal Dam is scheduled to commence in 1971. Azotea tunnel on the San Juan-Chama Pro- ject was completed in April 1970. This 12.8- mile tunnel, the second longest tunnel through the Contintental Divide, will con- vey water from Navajo River (a tributary of the San Juan) in southern Colorado to the Rio Grande Basin in New Mexico. Diver- sions are scheduled to begin in 1971. Lower Basin Developments Central Arizona Project. In accordance with the authority granted by Title III of the 38 Colorado River Basin Project Act (P.L. 90- 537), the Department ofthe Interior and the State of Arizona determined that the capaci- ty of the main aqueduct, called the "Granite Reef Aqueduct," would be 3,000 cubic feet per second. This decision on capacity set the electric power capacity requirements of the Central Arizona Project at 561,000 kilowatts, This energy requirement will be supplied by the Navajo Power Project, a joint federal- private thermal power development now un- der construction near Page, Arizona. During 1970, contracts were executed to provide for the interim sale of the United States' 24.3 percent capacity entitlement to non-federal participants for use until such power is need- ed for Central Arizona Project purposes. Congress appropriated $5,748,000 for the fed- eral share of the fiscal year construction costs of the Navajo Power Project, In the early part of 1970, the Arizona legis- lature appropriated $685,000 to advance to the Bureau of Reclamation for the purpose of accelerating planning and design activities. The Commissioner of the Bureau of Recla- mation stated that the funds obtained from Arizona would advance planning work on the Granite Reef Aqueduct by as much as one year, In September 1970 Congress appropriated $1,850,000 for the Central Arizona Project, of which $1,200,000 was designed to initiate ac- tual construction of the aqueduct. However, the Office of Management and Budget in- dicated that construction funds would not be released until some positive progress is made toward water contracting and repayment. The Department of the Interior strongly recommended that Arizona create an overall conservancy district to contract with the Sec- retary for water from the Central Arizona Project rather than require the Secretary to execute separate contracts with the numer. ous parties who have indicated interest in contracting for that water. Arizona and the Secretary face a major wa- ter allocation problem because 69 agencies have filed expressions of interest for about 5 1 \ < l