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Show power plant at the dam will receive short-term regulation at the Morrow Point Reservoir immediately downstream. The reservoir behind Morrow Point Dam will have a capacity of 117,000 acre-feet, of which only 15,000 acre-feet will be active storage. Blue Mesa Power Plant will have an installed generating capacity of 60,000 kilowatts and the plant at Morrow Point Dam will have a generating capacity of 40,000 kilowatts. Construction Activities An office has been opened at Gunnison, Colorado, and preconstruc-tion surveys and detailed borrow pit explorations are underway. The Bureau of Reclamation has entered into a contract with the State of Colorado for the relocation of U. S. Highway 50 around Blue Mesa Dam and Reservoir sites. The state plans to award the relocation contract in February, 1961 with a completion date set for June, 1962. The prime contract for construction of the Blue Mesa Dam is planned to be awarded in March, 1962 Advance Planning The supplemental report on the economic justification of the Crystal Dam and Power Plant and its effect on the justification of Blue Mesa and Morrow Point Dams is being prepared. Detailed surveys, core drilling, mapping and investigation studies are essentially completed. Designs and estimates for the project features will be made this winter with the report scheduled for completion by the end of fiscal year 1961. 5. Transmission Division The purpose of the Transmission Division is to deliver Colorado River Storage Project power to major load centers or to delivery points from which other agencies may transmit the power to load centers, and to interconnect the generating plants of the Colorado River Storage Project with each other and with other Federal projects. A plan for a transmission system to accomplish these purposes was announced by the Secretary of the Interior on May 18, 1960, as a yardstick system for rate-making purposes and to evaluate proposals to wheel project power over private utility lines. The following map shows the yardstick system facilities. D. INITIALLY AUTHORIZED PARTICIPATING PROJECTS Of the eleven participating projects authorized by Public Law 485, five are in Colorado, one is in New Mexico, two are in Utah, and three are located in Wyoming. Participating projects will consume water of the Upper Colorado River System for irrigation, municipal and industrial purposes, and will participate in the use of revenues in the Basin Fund 47 |