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Show VI-6 UPDATING THE HOOVER DAM DOCUMENTS STATEMENT BY SENATOR ANDERSON OF NEW MEXICO RELATIVE TO THE 6TH ANNUAL REPORT ON THE STATUS OF THE COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT AND PARTICIPATING PROJECTS PURSUANT TO PUBLIC LAW 485 OF THE 84TH CONGRESS (70 STAT. 105) Mr. President, under date of December 28, 1902, the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Hon. Kenneth Holuin, transmitted to the President of the Senate the sixth annual report of the Department on the status of the Colorado River storage project and participating projects as required by section 6 of the authorizing act of April 11, 195C (70 Stat. 105). The report calls attention to 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 Xavajo storage unit in New Mexico; and third, the authorization on June 13, 1962, of the Xavajo Indian irrigation and San Juan-Chama projects. Annually this report has been printed as a Senate document and in conformity with this precedent I am sending forward a resolution authorizing that this report be printed. In addition, Mr. President, the Glen Canyon Dam, which is one of the key units of the project, is nearing completion, and filling of its mighty reservoir, Lake Powell, is about to start. Because of the great importance of this unit to the development of the entire Colorado River system, I am presenting a statement of the criteria and principles governing the filling and operation of the Glen Canyon Dam and Reservoir to be printed as an appendix to the sixth annual report. Mr. President, I am certain that every Member of the Congress is aware of how vital to the West and to the Nation is the full development of the Colorado River and its resources. As the dean of the Senate, the distinguished Senator from Arizona, Carl Hayden, so picturesquely expresses it: "The Colorado River is the West's last waterhole." One of the great forward steps the Congress has taken toward maximum development of this cornerstone of so much of the West's, and the Nation's, prosperity was the enactment in 1956 of the Colorado River Storage Project Act, which is Public Law 485, 84th Congress. Among the participating projects authorized by this monumental legislation, which I had the honor to sponsor, was construction of the Glen Canyon Dam and Reservoir. As construction of Glen Canyon Dam progressed, Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall initiated studies, in consultation with all of the diverse interests of the Colorado River Basin, to determine how Lake Powell could be filled with the least possible disruption of the many activities now dependent upon the flow of the river. The Secretary was faced with difficult decisions in formulating the filling |
