Explanation of differences between obligations in U.S. budget (itemization statement) and congressional justification

Obligations

1964

1965

Itemization of estimate..

Interest expense, payments to Treasury not reflected in congressional justification..

Prior year balance of advances to Chief Engineer and centralized project activities not reflected in congressional justification..

Subtotal, Upper Colorado River Basin fund.

Add: Recreational and fish and wildlife facilities..

Congressional justification..........

GENERAL STATEMENT

The Bureau is requesting a total of $62,300,000 for work financed by appropriations on the Colorado River storage project and participating projects including $4,500,000 for work authorized under provisions of section 8 of the basic legislation and $33,000 for nonreimbursable operation and maintenance expenses. This amount, plus $7,884,272 initial underfinancing, $31,680 in advances by water users for operation and maintenance, $100,000 available for expenditure from the sale of town lots at Page, Ariz., and from the sale of surplus service facilities, and $4,702,500 for operation and maintenance derived from operating revenue, will provide a total program of $75,018,452. This amount compares with the total program of $104,826,349 for fiscal year 1964.

On July 1, 1964, construction work will be underway on the Curecanti and 'Glen Canyon units and on the transmission division of the project, and on the Emery County, Lyman, San Juan-Chama, Silt and Seedskadee participating projects with drainage and minor construction programs on central Utah, Vernal unit, and Hammond and Florida participating projects. Advance planning will be active leading to the development of the remaining work on the Central Utah participating project.

By the end of fiscal year 1965 construction on Fontenelle dam and powerplant of the Seedskadee project and the Hammond and Florida projects will be essentially completed. The Hayden-Archer 230-kilovolt transmission line and substation along with several segments of other transmissions lines will also be completed. Other transmission division work underway at the beginning of the year will continue.

One new construction start, the Crystal facilities of the Curecanti unit, is scheduled in the fiscal year 1965 program.

Power-generating facilities to be completed in fiscal year 1965 will have a total nameplate rating of 347,500-kilowatts and facilities will be completed to provide 60,000 acre-feet of municipal and industrial water. These completion accomplishments, in the main reflect the application of appropriations in previous years, while the result of the fiscal year 1965 appropriations in terms of new irrigation service and hydroelectric generating capacity will be principally felt in the years following.

Work on recreation and fish and wildlife facilities under provision of section 8 of the authorizing legislation will be underway under the direction of the National Park Service and Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department. The requirement for fiscal year 1965 is estimated at $4,500,000. This amount is $1,233,898 less than the estimated program for fiscal year 1964.

Operation and maintenance of the reserved works of the Vernal unit of the Central Utah participating project will continue in fiscal year 1965 and operation and maintenance will start on the storage works of Florida participating project. These activities will be financed with funds advanced by the water users. Operations in fiscal year 1965 will continue on the Flaming Gorge, Glen "Canyon, and Navajo units and the transmission division of the storage project, financed from power and other revenues deposited to the credit of the Upper Colorado River Basin fund. Operation and maintenance of the Seedskadee participating project power and storage features will be initiated in fiscal year 1965 with project revenues from the Upper Colorado River Basin fund. Nonreimbursable operation and maintenance expenses on the storage units and participating projects will be defrayed from appropriated funds.

The following table shows the allocation of appropriations for fiscal year 1964 and the proposed allocation of the fiscal year 1965 estimates, including initial underfinancing.

ADVANCE PLANNING

Chairman HAYDEN. For fiscal year 1965 the request for advance planning funds is $1,405,000. The justification will be printed in the record.

(The justification referred to follows:)

Purpose of program.—Subsequent to authorization of a Bureau of Reclamation project, additional detailed studies are generally required to refine the findings of the feasibility report and evolve a definite plan of development prior to start of construction. The major portion of this work consists of the collection of final design data, the preparation of final designs and specifications and completion of the definite plan report. It also includes negotiations with local interests, leading to execution of repayment contracts. This advance planning program will finance detailed studies on the participating projects of the Colorado River storage project to prepare those developments for start of construction.

During the current fiscal year, advance planning is being continued on the central Utah project, initial phase, and the definite plan report for the Benneville unit is being completed. The quality of water studies also will be continued. Advance planning on the San Juan-Chama project, Colorado-New Mexico, will be continued with carryover funds.

During fiscal year 1965 planning will be underway on the following items:

CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT, UTAH

Location and description.-The central Utah project, initial phase, will be constructed in the eastern part of the Bonneville Basin in central Utah and in the Uinta Basin, a part of the Colorado River Basin in northeastern Utah. This initial phase consists of the Bonneville, Jensen, Upalco, and Vernal units. Of these, the Vernal unit is now under construction. Principal features of the Bonneville unit are Strawberry aqueduct, Strawberry Reservoir enlargement, powerplants with combined installed capacity of 133,500 kilowatts, and other regulating reservoirs, aqueducts, canals, and distribution systems. This unit will provide irrigation water to about 43,740 acres of new land and a supplemental supply for about 103,000 acres. Municipal and industrial needs of 79,000 acre-feet annually will be supplied. En route to places of use, the water will be utilized for the production of hydroelectric power. Flood control, fish and wildlife, and recreation values will be provided.

The Jensen unit would provide supplemental water for approximately 4,000 acres of land now irrigated and a full supply for 500 acres of new land in the vicinity of the town of Jensen in Uintah County. The plan under consideration would include one pumping plant on the bank of Green River with about an 80foot lift to the existing Burns Bench Canal and a siphon extending to the existing Murray ditch north of Brush Creek. A second pumping plant would relift part of the water an additional 100 feet to supply the existing Sunshine Canal.

The Upalco unit is located near the town of Roosevelt in Duchesne and Uintah Counties. It would involve construction of a dam and reservoir on Lake Fork, two feeder canals, a reregulating reservoir, and a service canal to provide a supplemental water supply for 50,000 acres of land in the Moon Lake project area. Authorization.-Act of April 11, 1956 (70 Stat. 105).