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Show APPENDIX C EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT: COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT AND PARTICIPATING PROJECTS INTRODUCTION The Colorado River storage project and participating projects were initially authorized by the Congress on April 11, 1956 (70 Stat. 105). This act initiated the comprehensive development of the water resources of the Upper Colorado River Basin for the purposes, among others, of regulating the flow of the Colorado River, storing water for beneficial consumptive use, making it possible for the States of the upper basin to utilize, consistent with the provisions of the Colorado River compact, the apportionments made to and among them in the Colorado River compact and the Upper Colorado River Basin compact. The act authorized the construction of the storage project units, viz, Curecanti, Flaming Gorge, Glen Canyon, and Navajo. In addition, there were 11 participating projects specifically authorized for construction in the upper basin States. For management purposes, the transmission facilities authorized for construction in connection with storage project units and participating projects have been consolidated as the transmission division. The Paonia and Smith Fork projects in Colorado have been completed and are being operated by the local water users. The Vernal unit of the central Utah project, completed in fiscal year 1983, is being operated by the Bureau with funds advanced by the water users. The Hammond project in New Mexico was substantially completed this fiscal year. Five other participating projects are now being built. Of the 25 potential participating projects that were given planning priority by the 1956 act, favorable feasibility reports have been completed on the Animas-La Plata, Bostwick Park, Dolores, Fruit-land Mesa, Navajo Indian irrigation, San Juan-Chama, and Savery-Pot Hook projects. (The Navajo Indian irrigation and San Juan-Chama projects are now under construction as authorized by the act of June 13, 1962.) Work on feasibility studies is nearing completion on the Dallas Creek, San Miguel, and West Divide projects. A major milestone in the progress of the storage project was the production of the first CRSP power in 1963 after the late 115 |