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Show APPENDIX VI VI-81 78 COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT the Lyman project. Quality of water studies were continued in the Upper Colorado River Basin as authorized by law. FISH AND WILDLIFE FACILITIES Fishery rehabilitation programs were initiated on the San Juan and Green Rivers prior to closure of the Navajo and Flaming Gorge Dams. The rough-fish eradication program for approximately 67 miles of the San Juan River and its tributaries was completed in September 1961 in cooperation with both the Colorado and New Mexico fish and game departments. Work was begun under a $150,000 contract with the Utah and Wyoming fish and game departments for a similar program in a 445-mile stretch of the Green River and its tributaries. These measures are intended to assure improved populations of game fish in the rivers and to establish an optimum reservoir fishery during the initial years of impoundment. A contract was awarded in June for the installation of a pump at the Stewart Lake State Waterfowl Refuge in Utah to replace the source of water impaired by project operations. Planning activities for future facilities, including appraisal of water supply and site locations for wildlife management areas and fish hatcheries, continued throughout fiscal 3rcar 1962. PUBLIC RECREATION FACILITIES Activities relative to the provision of visitor facilities consisted primarily of the planning and designing of developments in the Glen Canyon, Flaming Gorge, and Navajo Reservoir areas. These include roads, parking areas, boat-launching ramps, campgrounds, picnic areas, utilities, comfort stations, beach developments, and miscellaneous administrative facilities. In addition, in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, construction of utility and campground projects has been completed and two employee residences are 60-percent complete. In the Flaming Gorge Recreation Area, a temporary office building was completed; and in the Navajo Reservoir Recreation Area, a contract was awarded for construction of the boat-launching ramp. 3. Allocation of Federal Investment Section 6 of the authorizing act states that upon completion of each unit, participating project, or separable feature thereof, the Secretary shall allocate the total cost of constructing said unit, project, or feature to the various purposes authorized in the act or authorized under reclamation law. No formal allocations to the several purposes to be served by the project have been made of the cost to June 30, 1962. However, tentative allocations have been made of the total estimated cost of projects now under construction (schedule No. 6). The tentative allocations are summarized as follows: |