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Show VIII. Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects A. APPROPRIATIONS OF FUNDS BY THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS On January 16, 1961 President Eisenhower in his Annual Budget Message to Congress recommended that Congress appropriate $60,700,000 to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund for fiscal year 1962. President Kennedy made several revisions in the amounts requested for the reclamation program as a whole, although the total amount requested remained the same as in the Eisenhower Budget. Three of the revisions ordered by President Kennedy affected the amounts requested for the Colorado River Storage Project. These revisions were: (1) Reduction in the total amount requested from $60,700,000 to $59,900,000 due to a transfer of $800,000 to the over-all General Investigations program of the Bureau of Reclamation. (2) The amount requested for construction of the Curecanti Storage Unit was increased by $672,000 from $4,557,000 to $5,229,000 in order to start pre- construction work on the Morrow Point Dam and Reservoir. (3) The amount for transmission lines was increased by $5,830,000 from $8,673,000 to $14,503,000. In order to finance the requested increase for Curecanti Storage Unit and the transmission lines, unidentified reductions were made in the amounts requested for other features of the Colorado River Storage Project. The requested increase for transmission lines was to provide funds to complete planning on and initiate construction of the following lines in fiscal year 1962: (a) Gunnison-Curecanti-Montrose, Colorado (b) Glen Canyon-Phoenix, Arizona (c) Vernal-Provo No. 1, Utah (d) Craig, Colorado-Sinclair, Wyoming 40 |