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Show Morrison-Knudsen, Henry J. Kaiser, and F & S Contracting Co. for $22,822,624. The contractors moved onto the job immediately and started work on excavation in the spillway area and the opening of borrow areas. By June 30, 1958, facilities at Navajo Camp, the field headquarters for the construction of Navajo Dam, had been completed. An access road to Navajo Camp and to the dam site has been completed. The road was constructed by the State of New Mexico utilizing, in part, funds advanced by the Bureau of Reclamation. Transmission Division During fiscal year 1958. preliminary steps have been taken in the planning of a suitable transmission system for the Colorado River storage project. Reconnaissance surveys have been made to select a route for the Glen Canyon-Springville section of the Glen Canyon-Flaming Gorge interconnecting transmission line. Network analyzer studies have been initiated to determine operating voltages, size and type of conductors, location of lines, and operating characteristics of the potential system. Advance Planning Activities Foundation drilling at the dam site and the testing of sources of earth embankment and concrete aggregate materials constituted the major activity during the year relative to the Curecanti unit. By June 30, 1958, definite plan reports had been completed for the Paonia project in Colorado and for the Vernal unit of the central Utah project in Utah. Definite plan reports were essentially complete for the Hammond project in New Mexico and the Seedskadee project in Wyoming. Advance planning studies continued during the year on all other authorized participating projects with the major emphasis on field studies coincident with preparation of definite plan reports. 3. Allocation of Federal Investment Section 6 of Public Law 485 states that upon completion of each unit, participating project, or separable feature thereof, the Secretary shall allocate the total costs of constructing said unit, project or feature to the various purposes authorized in the act or authorized under reclamation law. Therefore in accordance with such provision no formal allocations to the several purposes to be served by the project have been made of the cost to June 30, 1958, as reflected in construction work in 65 |