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Show the Glen Canyon, Flaming Gorge and Navajo Storage Units is, in general, either approximately on schedule or ahead of schedule. Appendix C of this report consists of a tabulation of contract awards relative to the Colorado River Storage Project and participating projects that have been made by the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation through calendar year 1958. B. FISCAL DATA - COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT Section 6 of the Act authorizing the construction and operation of the Colorado River Storage Project and participating projects (Act of April 11, 1956, 70 Stat. 105) stipulates that on January 1 of each year the Secretary of the Interior shall report to the Congress for the previous fiscal year upon the status of the revenues from, and the cost of constructing, operating and maintaining the Colorado River Storage Project and participating projects. Appendix D of this report consists of the SECOND ANNUAL REPORT ON THE COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT AND PARTICIPATING PROJECTS of the Secretary of the Interior to the Congress of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1958. C. AUTHORIZED STORAGE UNITS (Information relative to Storage Units and participating projects has been obtained from reports on investigations and activities of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior.) The construction of four Storage Units of the Colorado River Storage Project and eleven participating projects was authorized in Section 1 of the Public Law 485. The four authorized Storage Units are at Glen Canyon on the Colorado River in Utah and Arizona, Flaming Gorge on the Green River in Wyoming and Utah, Navajo on the San Juan River in New Mexico and Colorado and Curecanti on the Gunni-son River in Colorado. Combined they will provide about 34,670,000 acre-feet of reservoir capacity and produce about 1,167,000 kilowatts of installed generating capacity. 1. Glen Canyon Storage Unit The Glen Canyon Dam and Reservoir will comprise the key Storage Unit and will be the largest of the initial four. It will provide about 80% of both the storage and generating capacity and will be roughly comparable in size to Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. The concrete gravity-arch dam located in northern Arizona on the Colorado River, 12.4 miles downstream from the Utah-Arizona state line, and 15.3 miles upstream from Lees Ferry will rise 573 feet above the river. It will be a little lower than Hoover Dam and will be the second tallest dam in the United States. The reservoir will have a capacity of 28 million acre- 27 |