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Show VIII. Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects A. APPROPRIATIONS OF FUNDS BY THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS In his budget message to the Second Session of the 85th Congress on January 13, 1958, the President recommended that Congress appropriate $38,425,000 to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund for fiscal 1959. Of this sum $35,000,000 were designated for Glen Canyon Dam; $2,500,000 for Flaming Gorge Dam; $205,000 for transmission lines; and $720,000 for advanced planning of participating projects and the Cure-canti Storage Unit. The President did not recommend construction funds for Navajo Dam and Reservoir. There was a proposal in the budget request that $1,500,000 of the unobligated funds appropriated for fiscal 1958 for the Navajo Storage Unit be transferred to the Flaming Gorge Storage Unit. Early in 1958 it became apparent that the prime contractor constructing Glen Canyon Dam would be able to maintain an economic rate of construction and earn about $10 million more than Congress had appropriated for fiscal 1958. The President recommended and the Second Session of the 85th Congress met this situation by making available an additional $10 million in a supplemental appropriation bill applicable to fiscal 1958. As for the fiscal year 1958, the Bureau of the Budget again did not recommend the appropriation of funds for the initiation of construction of the Paonia Project in Colorado and the Vernal Unit of the Central Utah Project in Utah during fiscal year 1959, or for the commencement of "new start" projects in other areas of the seventeen reclamation States, Due to the recession in the national economy and the resulting increase in unemployment, the President on March 8, 1958 amended his original budget request to Congress by recommending the appropriation of additional funds for accelerating the progress of water development projects already under construction. Of the $71,000,000 ($46,000,000 for regular reclamation projects and $25,000,000 for small project loans) $29,050,000 were recommended by the President for accelerating construction of projects in the Upper Colorado River Basin, $14,000,000 for Glen Canyon; $7,000,000 for the Navajo Dam; $8,000,000 for Flaming Gorge and $50,000 for advanced planning. The President's amended 25 |