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Show B. Public Law 485 Public Law 485, with citations, as approved by President Eisenhower, is printed below: Public Law 485 - 84th Congress Chapter 203 - 2d Session S. 500 AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Colorado River storage project and participating projects and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in order Colorado River to initiate the comprehensive development of the water resour of the Upper Colorado River Basin, for the purposes, among others, \70 Stat. 105. jrces\ hers, \ storage project. of regulating the flow of the Colorado River, storing water for 70 stat. 106. beneficial consumptive use, making it possible for the States of the Upper Basin to utilize, consistently with the provisions of the Colorado River Compact, the apportioaments made to and among them in the Colorado River Compact and the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, respectively, providing for the recla.mation of arid 63 Stat. 31. and semiarid land, for the control of floods, and for the genenation of hydroelectric power, as an incident of the foregoing purposes, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized (I) to construct, operate, and maintain the following initial units of the Colorado Initial units. River storage project, consisting of dams, reservoirs, powerplants, transmission facilities and appurtenant works: Curecanti, Flaming Gorge, Navajo (dam and reservoir only), and Glen Canyon: Provided, That the Cureoanti Dam shall be constructed to a height Curecanti Dam. which will impound not less than nine hundred and forty thousand Report to acre-feet of water or will create a reservoir of such greater capacity ongress an as can be obtained by a high water line located at seven thousand five hundred and twenty feet above mean sea level, and that construction thereof shall not be undertaken until the Secretary has, on the basis of further engineering and economic investigations, reexamined ihe economic justification of such unit and, accompanied by appropriate documentation in the form of a supplemental report, has certified to the Congress and to the President that, in his judgment, the benefits of such unit will exceed its costs; and (2) to construct, operate, and maintain the following additional Participating reclamation projects (including power-generating and transmission projects, faciliiies related thereto), hereinafter referred to as participating projects: Central Utah (initial phase): Emery County, Florida, Hammond, La Barge, Lyrnan, Paonia (including the Minnesota unit, a dam and reservoir on Muddy Creek just above its confluence with the North Fork of the Gunnison River, and other necessary works), Pine River Extension, Seedskadee, Silt and Smith Fork: Provided M,.; , M *> i-ii i(>n<ii J*i onu - further, That as part of the Glen Canyon Unit the Secretary of the ment. -24- |