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Show for these activities constitute the principal items of cost of constructing the project to June 30, 1962, and are summarized as follows: Activity: Cost to date Construction work in progress........................................................$278,240,521 Completed plant in service.................................................................. 7,423,214 Service facilities .................................................................................. 14,776,879 Investigation costs (undistributed advance planning) ................ 5,299,824 Total ..................................................................................................$305,740,438 Details with respect to the foregoing, identified by project or activity, are shown respectively on schedules Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, attached. Highlights of certain of the major activities are set forth in the following paragraphs: Curecanti Storage Unit, Colorado Construction work continued on the relocation of segments of U. S. Highway 50 and Colorado State Highway 92 to bypass the Blue Mesa Reservior site. The prime contract for construction of the Blue Mesa Dam, powerplant, and switchyard, was awarded in April 1962 for $13,706,230. In addition, contracts were awarded for construction of temporary field office, laboratory, warehouse, and garage buildings. Surveys and preparation of designs are underway for the Morrow Point Dam, powerplant, and switchyard. The prime contract for the Morrow Point Dam will be awarded in the spring of 1963. Flaming Gorge Storage Unit, Utah Construction of the concrete arch dam on the upper Green River in Utah is 82 percent complete, and by November 1962 the dam will be "topped out" at a height of 502 feet above bedrock. A separate contract was awarded in February 1962 for completion of the powerplant and switchyard. Fabrication of powerplant turbines and generators was well underway with the turbines 64 percent complete and generators 55 percent complete. Closure of the single diversion tunnel will be accomplished in the fall of 1962, and filling of the 91-mile-long reservoir will begin. The first of the three power-generating units is expected to be placed on the line in September 1963. The remaining two units will be in service by March 1964. The powerplant will have a total generating capacity of 108,000 kilowatts. 87 |