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<br />.~ <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />I. <br /> <br />0641 <br /> <br />f. The proposed Trinidad Reservoir Project is econdmical1y <br />justified and has additional merit from the standpoint of other un- <br />evaluated and intangible benefits. <br /> <br />The District Engineer recommends: <br /> <br />a. That the recommendation contained in House Document Num- <br />bered 387, Seventy~eighth Congress, Second Session, be withdrawn. <br /> <br />b. That (1) the Trinidad Reseryoir Project on Purgatoire <br />River, Colorado, be constructed by the Corps of Engineers with funds <br />advanced qy the United States; (2) the Bureau of Reclamation maintain <br />and operate the project; (3) the United States contribute to the main- <br />tenance and operation of the reservoir project, in proportion to the <br />storage allocated to flood control, for the useful life of the project, <br />provided that about 46,700 acre-feet of 1nviolate flood control storage <br />be reserved in the reservoir above elevation 6251.0 feet above mean sea <br />level, and that this storage will be operated in accordance with regu- <br />lations prescribed b~ the Secretary of the Armlf; and (4) contracts be <br />negotiated between the United States and a legally organized conser- <br />vancy district representing the project water users, prior to the start <br />of construction, for the delivery of the water supplies at equitable <br />charges which would pay annual irrigation operation, maintenance and <br />replacement costs, and retire without interest all first costs of con- <br />struction allocated to irrigation, such annual charges to be within. <br />payment capacity of the water users and related to water supplies and <br />agricultural prices. <br /> <br /> <br />t <br />