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Show APPENDIX C SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT, COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT AND PARTICIPATING PROJECTS INTRODUCTION The Colorado River Storage project and participating projects were initially authorized by the Congress on April 11, 1956 (70 Stat. 105). This act provided for the basinwide development and utilization of the water and land resources of the Upper Colorado River Basin. The authorized facilities will result in control of the flows of the Upper Colorado River in large reservoirs, will produce sizeable blocks of hydroelectric power, will bring about irrigation of lands from upper basin tributary streams, and will supply water for municipal and industrial use. Construction of the project by the Bureau of Reclamation began in 1956 on Glen Canyon Dam, and in 1958 on Flaming Gorge and Navajo Dams. In following years, construction was started on the Curecanti unit, the transmission system, and on the following participating projects: Emery County, Florida, Hammond, Paonia, Seedskadee, Smith Fork, and the Vernal unit of the central Utah project. Fiscal year 1962 heralds three significant events in the development of the project. First, the substantial completion of the Paonia participating project in western Colorado. Second, the receipt of the first operating revenues from the sale of water on the Navajo storage unit in New Mexico. Third, authorization on June 13, 1962, by Public Law 87-483 of the Navajo Indian irrigation project and the San Juan-Chama project (initial stage) as participating projects. Section 6 of the authorizing act stipulates that, on January 1 of each year, the Secretary of the Interior shall report to Congress for the previous fiscal year: (1) Status of revenues from; and (2) Cost of constructing, operating, and maintaining the Colorado River Storage project and participating projects (hereinafter referred to as the "project"). The report is to be prepared so as to reflect accurately the - (3) Federal investment allocated at that time to power, to irrigation, and to other purposes; 85 |