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Show Currently the 85th Congress is being asked to appropriate additional funds in order that construction can continue. The Bureau of the Budget, through the President's budget message to Congress on January 16, 1957, recommended an appropriation to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund of $25,142,000 for the 1958 fiscal year. Of this sum, $1,195,037 are earmarked for advance planning of participating projects, $100,000 for investigations and preliminary construction of transmission lines, and the following sums for construction of Storage Units: Glen Canyon, $15,602,000; Flaming Gorge, $3,700,000; Navajo, $1,530,000. Allocated to obligations for stores, camps, etc., to be costed in future years, are $3,554,963. It is expected that there will be $540,000 from contributions. The Bureau of the Budget did not recommend the appropriation of funds for the initiation of construction of any participating projects in fiscal year 1958. It is hoped that Congress will remedy this situation in order that the construction of irrigation facilities can proceed as expeditiously as possible. Appendix C of this report consists of a tabulation of construction contract awards made by the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation for Units of the Colorado River Storage Project, and a list of construction contracts scheduled for bidding during the period February-April, 1957. A. Provisions of Public Law 485, 84th Congress, 2d Session In the Seventh Annual Report a section is devoted to legislation to authorize the Colorado River Storage Project and participating projects. That report also contains a summary of events in the legislative history of Public Law 485. The following outline-analysis of this Act may be of benefit to those who wish to refer to it: -16- |