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Show 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 the participating projects." Appendix C of this report consists of the SIXTH 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, 1962. C. AUTHORIZED STORAGE UNITS (Information relative to Storage Units and participating projects has been obtained from reports on investigations and activities of the United States 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 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 Gunnison River in Colorado. Combined they will provide about 33,594,000 acre-feet of reservoir capacity and about 1,208,000 kilowatts of installed generating capacity. 1. Glen Canyon Storage Unit Glen Canyon Dam and Reservoir comprises the key storage unit and is the largest of the initial four, providing about 80 percent of both the storage and generating capacity. It rises 710 feet above the river bed and is roughly comparable in size to Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. The concrete, gravity-arch dam is 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. (Lees Ferry is the location of the Geological Survey gaging station and is 1.0 miles upstream from the compact point, Lee Ferry, which divides the Colorado River drainage into two basins.) Glen Canyon Dam is the second tallest dam in the United States. The reservoir will have a capacity of 27,000,000 acre-feet and will extend 186 miles upstream on the Colorado River, and 71 43 |