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Show E. PROJECTS HAVING PRIORITY FOR PLANNING UNDER PUBLIC LAW 485, 84TH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION In carrying out further investigations of projects under Federal Reclamation Laws in the Upper Colorado River Basin, the Secretary of the Interior is directed to give priority to completion of planning reports on twenty-five projects. Brief descriptions of these projects are to be found in the Commission's Eighth Annual Report. The Bureau of Reclamation, so far as limited funds and personnel will permit, is continuing its studies on these projects. Considerable progress in investigations has been accomplished during the past year. Two projects, the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project and the San Juan-Chama Project, had supplemental feasibility reports completed during 1957. Authorizing legislation introduced in the 2d Session of the 85th Congress was not enacted into law. Other projects in the priority-for-planning category are in various stages of detailed planning for feasibility reports or preliminary investigations for reconnaissance reports. A list of these projects given priority-for-planning status by P. L. 485, the Colorado River Storage Project Act, follows: 1. Potential Participating Projects Under Investigation for Feasibility Reports Colorado a. Savery-Pot Hook Project The State of Wyoming has approved the plan for a combined development in Colorado and Wyoming that was presented in the Bureau of Reclamation's proposed feasibility report of July, 1954. After a revision of the cost estimates and repayment analyses, the final report was submitted to interested parties in April, 1958. This report is being further revised to include additional information. b. Fruitland Mesa Project Field surveys, land classification, geologic surveys and water supply studies have been completed and work on other phases of the investigations has been accelerated. The feasibility report is scheduled to be completed before the end of fiscal year 1959. 42 |