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Show New Mexico in the Rio Grande Basin. By exchange, the project will also increase the use of water in New Mexico in the Canadian River Basin. It is planned to provide for an initial diversion of an average of 110,000 acre-feet of Colorado River Basin water per year. This project will also improve conditions for recreation and fish and wildlife in the Rio Grande Basin. Activities Under the policy of the State of New Mexico, these two projects, the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project and the San Juan-Chama Project, are to be developed concurrently. Supplemental feasibility reports for both were completed by the Bureau of Reclamation during 1957. Legislation was introduced in the Second Session of the 85th Congress, the First Session of the 86th Congress, and the First Session of the 87th Congress to authorize the construction of both projects. Authorizing legislation is currently pending before the Congress. The Senate passed its Bill, S. 107, on March 28, 1961. The Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives held hearings during the year and considered the legislation as introduced in that body in H.R. 7596. The House Committee favorably reported its Bill on July 10, 1961. Because it was so late in the Congressional Session, sponsors of the projects determined that there was not sufficient time for adequate attention to be given by the Congress to the proposed legislation prior to adjournment of the First Session of the 87th Congress. H.R. 7596 is pending in the Rules Committee of the House. It is anticipated that the Rules Committee and the House of Representatives will take favorable action on this Bill early in the Second Session of the 87th Congress. The Upper Colorado River Commission at its Adjourned Regular Meeting held in Denver, Colorado on May 11, 1961 unanimously adopted a resolution endorsing the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project and the Initial Stage of the San Juan-Chama Project. The resolution urged the early authorization of the projects by the Congress of the United States. COLORADO a. Fryingpan-Arkansas Project The Fryingpan-Arkansas Project is located in central Colorado. The project will (a) divert through project works from the Roaring Fork River Basin in western Colorado to the Arkansas River Basin in eastern Colorado approximately 69,000 acre-feet of water per year; (b) divert through the existing works of the Twin Lakes Canal 70 |
