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Show Appendix D FEATURES IN THE FINAL BILL ON THE COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT PUBLIC LAW 485 84th CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION HR. 3383 and S. 500 were the final Colorado River Storage Project bills passed by the House and the Senate, respectively. The differences in them were ironed out in joint conference, and the conference report was accepted by both the House and the Senate on March 28, 1956. Contents of Public Law 485 were: Projects and Estimated Construction Costs dams (4) participating projects (11) Curecanti ..........$49,305,000 Central Utah ....$231,044,000 Flaming Gorge .. 82,942,000 (initial phase) Navajo (dam and Emery County .. 9,865,500 reservoir only) 42,372,000 Florida .............. 6,941,500 Glen Canyon ..... 421,270,000 Hammond ........ 2,302,000 La Barge .......... 1,673,300 Lyman .............. 10,564,000 Paonia .............. 6,944,000 Pine River Extension ...... 5,027,000 Seedskadee ........ 23,272,000 Silt .................... 3,356,000 ___________ Smith Fork ........ 3,367,000 Subtotal ............$595,899,000 Subtotal ............$304,355,300 Total Dams ................................$595,889,000 Participating Projects ...... 304,555,300 Grand total ................$900,244,300 Note: The bill also called for priority in planning reports for another Dam and 24 more Participating Projects (see below). |