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Show through the Gunnison Tunnel. This will allow use of the second Morrow Point generator for firm power-peaking, thus adding another 60 MW of firm generating capacity to the power system. Recreation Activities Recreational facilities are being built by the National Park Service at the Center Point site adjacent to highway U.S. 50 on Blue Mesa Lake and at the Iola site across the lake and toward its upper end. Boat ramps, parking areas, picnic and camping facilities are available at these two sites. Contract will soon be awarded to construct a Visitor Center at the Center Point site. Recreation use during the 1967 season to September 30 totaled 171,200 visits. A joint Bureau of Reclamation-National Park Service Visitor Center at Cimarron, Colorado - gateway to Morrow Point Dam and to Crystal Reservoir - is planned for construction in 1969. D. TRANSMISSION DIVISION The Transmission Division provides facilities for the delivery of Colorado River Storage Project power to major load centers, or to delivery points from which other agencies may transmit the power to load centers, and to interconnect the generating plants of the Colorado River Storage Project with each other and with adjacent Federal, public, and private utility transmission systems. Construction Activities Construction of the Colorado River Storage Project backbone transmission system with associated communications and control facilities was essentially completed. The remaining connecting link to eastern Colorado, the Poncha (Salida)-Midway section of the Curecanti-Midway 230-kv line is now under construction and completion is expected by March 1968, with a planned in-service date of October 1968. The Midway terminal substation is under construction and completion is expected by October 1968. The original plan of the Colorado River Storage Project backbone system included a joint Bureau-Public Service Company of Colorado 230-kv switching station near Rifle, Colorado. Construction of that substation was started in 1967. It is expected to be completed by June, 1968. During July 1967 two contracts were awarded for constructing access roads needed for maintaining the Curecanti-Shiprock 230-kv transmission line and a third contract for constructing access roads for the southern half of the Curecanti-Hayden 230-kv transmission line. 103 |