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Show kilowatt powerplant and switchyard at Fontenelle Dam. The power-plant is under construction and scheduled for completion in mid-1965. A review commission was appointed by the Secretary of the Interior to make a study of the Wyoming Reclamation program and review the economic outlook of projects under development. In view of recommendations of the commission, and after consultation among the Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Agriculture, and the State of Wyoming, it was determined that a development farm should be established and operated on the Seedskadee Project. The purpose of the farm will be to determine and demonstrate the most effective, economic, and best adapted water management practices, crop production, and livestock handling techniques, and their relationship to optimum family-size farm units and a project distribution system. Part of the farm will be used for basic research. The Bureau of Reclamation will construct the development farm and facilities. The farm will be operated under the direct supervision of the University of Wyoming's College of Agriculture under a cooperative agreement with the Bureau and the Department of Agriculture. E. POTENTIAL STORAGE UNITS 1. Gray Canyon Reconnaissance investigations on the potential Gray Canyon Unit of the Colorado River Storage Project (located in east-central Utah) will continue through the year. The development would include one or more dams and power generating facilities to utilize the 500 feet of head available in the Gray Canyon segment of the Green River. A damsite immediately below the confluence of the Price and Green Rivers is being considered in preference to the site described in the CRSP report of December 1950. This lower site is more accessible and offers greater opportunity for multiple-purpose development than the previously selected site three miles upstream from the Price River confluence. F. POTENTIAL PROJECTS In carrying out further investigations of projects under Federal Reclamation Laws in the Upper Colorado River Basin, the Secretary of the Interior is directed to give priority to completion of planning reports on twenty-five projects. Brief descriptions of these projects are to be found in the Commission's Eighth Annual Report. The Bureau of Reclamation, so far as limited funds and personnel will permit, is continuing its studies on these projects. Con- 66 |