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Show 1 983 Colorado River projects programs seek additional funds lS)rtUKolhf VinulKpi ( .. ,rCNs S ahliist i Curres ponde nt i.'tHKi.ii construction work (hat tite tXtmstratuw has r)uosted for the fcitMU of Reclamation in mt, aUmt JV million is for the Colorado Kiver vt programs, according to Interior prnm1"! budget officers and ivuwnts. Ty li fiscal year begins ou Oct. I, ftt pureau's 1S2 construction was pegged at $t$. 505,000 by Vcress. ami Mr. Reagan would boost to ftw.w.nv in iwj. n nun m- , some SwUTS.OOO would be for yoraiio River Storage projects in the eer Basin; So-.tW.OOO would be for ,,j.y control project in both the vr and Lower Basins, and aiW.W would be for dam safety, .ixi'.r.j; $8. UVO for carrying out a fem safety examination program in lie Colorado River Basin, according to 'K-iet Aita released by Interior. ' TV Department proposes to double be amount of money it plans to spend e the Colorado River Basin salinity crrol program, from about $2S 3 cion in 152 to $61 million in 193. tis includes money to continue con-p.vs?n con-p.vs?n work on the Yuma desalting Isr.t to clean up the return flow from uWeiton-Mohawk irrigation project efj the water from the Colorado .-aver flows into Mexico; and continued xsruction work on Colorado River iiitv sources at Grand Valley and index Valley in Colorado and Las Kss Wash in Nevada. -Ts Bureau has allowed for 19S3 an ii;xal J5.W9.CkXi for general in-siiations. in-siiations. including $2 million to 'jeecup advance planning, and five of (11 projects in the advance planning tesxy are Colorado River salinity tves as follows: Cacraco: State I of the Lower -cnison Basin in Cncompahgre ilev and McElmo Creek in Mon-: Mon-: Valley. -il'ornia: Palo Verde Irrigation Src: in Palo Verde Valley. l"ui: S-Jge I of the L'intah Baiin. fc;:i;ion. a study w ould be made of jaxectial to use brackish or saline terirx". the Colorado River Basin to jrecoelby slurry pipeline from the jerBasia to California for export, in f or.vejrewith W.R. Grace and Co. Bureau of Reclamation. Rieseare the same projects that the tcr-x River Basin Salinity Control re sar.ts to get authorised this I r.ai.T.g with some salinity work on fa lad areas, starting with Sinbad 6? in Southwestern Colorado, and the U.S. Department of :.Uure doing direct on-farm 17 control w ork in the Basin. -1 William L. Armstrong. R-Colo.. - supposed to send out a "dear ;:rj" letter on the extension of the ; alisity control program for the this past week, but he had not "ed off on the letter and the Forum's I packaged proposal by mid week, when Congress adjourned for a 10 day nwss The Korum is hoping with Armstrong as the principal sponsor it can get nil 14 Senators from the Colorado Kiver K-isin states to co sponsor the new salinity extension for the Basin. The exact cost of the additional work has ikK been determined, but it is expected to bo more than $400 million spread over several years. Other expenditures in the works in the Colorado Kiver Basin, largely by the Bureau of Reclamation, are expected ex-pected to be a new start sometime the coming year for the Animas-LaPlata projtvt in Colorado and New Mexico and within a year or two to modify Hoover Ham. That's in (he cards, according ac-cording to Interior budget officers. For r.MU tlx1 Bureau plans to upnite (he powerplant facilities at Hoover I am on the Colorado Kiver at the Arizona Nevada border; and to continue con-tinue similar work at Flaming Gorge liam in I'tah. nt Blue Mesa Dam in Colorado, and at tin Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona. "At the completion of all uprating programs ongoing in fiscal year l'.MH, total power capacity will 1k increased by 1:12,1100 kilowatts," the majority at Colorado Kiver Basin power plants, according to the Bureau. This is in addition to increased construction funds for grouting abutments abut-ments of Navajo Dam in New Mexico in 1!)K3, for which $;i,5ii5,l)(K) is programmed; Dallas Creek, $38. 82'.). 0D0, and Dolores project, $4.r714,000 in Colorado; $9.w;i,0tK) for continued construction of recreation facilities at the Wayne N. Aspinall imils, Kidgeway Dam on the Dallas Creek project, and ratige improvements im-provements nt Mcl'hee Dam on the Dolores project; $7!).(il!3,(KK) for the Bonneville project and $roo,000 for the I'inlah project in I'tah. These are just the projects on which there are increases. There is continued construction on a couple dozen other I'pper Colorado and other Colorado Basin facilities in 19H3, hut the funding will be less than in 1982 because the construction work on the projects is Hearing completion. A pound of tea makes about 125 cups. |