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Show 6076 521 Bissell - D 4079 somewhere in the last five or ten years, however. Q Does your Department also have to do with dam sites as applied to power projects? Does that come within the purview of the Reclamation Service? A Only when the power development is incidental to irrigation. Q Well, now, does that mat indicate any power sites which are incidental to irrigation? A The map carries as a matter of information a number of power sites that we know of at the time of the compilation of the map and that had been considered as possible power sites. They do not represent in all cases, or in the majority of cases, surveys for power development made by this bureau. For instance, we have several power sites from Flaming Gorge on down the river marked with an arrow as power sites. But those power sites, when they have been investigated by the Reclamation Bureau, have been investigated primarily as irri-gation reservoirs, and only incidentally as source of power. Q Well, now, does the Flaming Gorge dam site there -- does that indicate any area to be irrigated? A The Flaming Gorge was like the other reservoirs that |