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Show reservoir behind Navajo Dam; $100,000 for acquisition and initial development of land in the Navajo Dam area to provide winter range for big game animals; $28,000 to provide an alternate source of water for the Stewart Lake Waterfowl Refuge, to compensate for diversion of the flow of Ashley Creek from which the water supply for the refuge is now obtained; $320,000 to relocate a deer herd in the Flaming Gorge Reservoir area; and $173,000 for eradication of rough fish from the Green River and its tributaries above the Flaming Gorge Dam. Availability of funds for the last two purposes is a matter of urgency, in view of the scheduled closing of this dam in the fall of 1962. It would probably be too late for the necessary work to be accomplished after the money became available, if the appropriation is delayed until fiscal year 1963. "The committee recommends that the following work be accomplished by reprograming of available funds: "Emery County project, Utah, $500,000.-The committee recommends that the Bureau of Reclamation reprogram within the Upper Colorado River Basin fund $500,000 to initiate construction in fiscal year 1962 on the Emery County project, Utah. The Bureau testified that during fiscal year 1962, construction contracts can be awarded. "Central Utah project, $100,000.--The committee recommends that $100,000 be reprogramed within the Upper Colorado River Basin fund as an additional amount to the $995,000 budgeted for advance planning on the Central Utah project, initial phase, in fiscal year 1962. It is expected that this additional amount will permit completion of the definite plan report by the end of fiscal year 1964, 1 year earlier than contemplated under the program presented to the Congress. "Colorado River storage project, transmission division.-The committee has approved the full request for funds for the transmission division, Upper Colorado River Basin fund, with the definite understanding that funds are to be used only for the following transmission lines: (a) Flaming Gorge-Oak Creek transmission lines and substations; (b) Glen Canyon-Curecanti-Poncha transmission lines and substations; (c) Gunnison-Blue Mesa-Curecanti-Montrose transmission lines and substations. With respect to any other lines, it is the desire of the committee that the Bureau of Reclamation and the utility companies in the area concerned enter into wheeling agreements to the advantage of the Federal Government and the preferred customers for the transmission of power from the upper Colorado River project. "The committee, therefore, directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Bureau of Reclamation to exhaust every possible effort to obtain proper wheeling agreements to accomplish the purposes of these lines, and to report back to the Senate and House Appropriations Committees no later than February 15, 1962, on the progress made in negotiating such contracts. In view of the schedule for completion of power facilities in the Colorado project, the period specified for negotiation of wheeling contracts will not in any way 43 |
