Work proposed fiscal, year 1957—Continued Keyhole unit, Wyoming: For continued normal operation and maintenance Lower Marias unit, Montana: For first year operation and maintenance of Rapid Valley unit, South Dakota: For first year operation and maintenance of Pactola Dam and Reservoir. Sargent unit, Nebraska: For initial operation and maintenance of Milburn Shadehill unit, South Dakota: For continued normal operation Shadehill Smoky Hill and Solomon division, Kansas: For operation and maintenance Eastern division: For normal operation and maintenance of transmis- Western division: For normal operation and maintenance of transmission facilities comprising about 2,741 miles of transmission lines and 882,002 kilovolt-amperes substation and switch-yard capacity. The increase is a net figure resulting from an increase due to placing an additional 214 miles of transmission line and 10,0000 kilovolt-amperes substation capacity in service in fiscal year 1957 and a decrease in purchase power requirements.. Total cost.. Cost adjustments: Represents $56,800 increase in stores inventory on 8 operating divisions; a $40,140 reduction as a result of interproject power exchange, deductions for operating employees quarters and equipment and material nonappropriation transfers; and a $130,000 reduction from costs as a result of future year capacity scheduled on the Bostwick, FrenchmanCambridge, Kirwin and Sargent units which is to be financed from the Missouri River Basin project construction appropriation. Total obligations...... $356, 341 5, 061, 934 182, 984 1, 550 7, 109 8,752 5, 618, 670 -113, 340 5,505, 330 1 Includes sales and revenues on Colorado-Big Thompson, Kendrick, Riverton, and Shoshone projects Mr. RABAUT. Apparently you are continuing to maintain certain irrigation features of the Kendrick project and the Riverton project. Why cannot these be turned over to the water users for O. and M.? KENDRICK PROJECT Mr. DOMINY. On the Kendrick project we are just completing the canals and laterals construction, and we are actively negotiating with the water users with a view to transfer the operation and maintenance of those works to them in the very near future. Mr. RABAUT. During the coming year? Mr. DOMINY. We think we will be able to do it this year, having them operating by 1958 at least. RIVERTON PROJECT In the case of Riverton, the first and second divisions, which is the Midvale Irrigation District, is now operating and maintaining their works of some 40,000 acres, and have been operating them for several years. The only works we are still operating on Riverton is the third division, which is the newly constructed area which is still in a development period, and since they are public lands we have not yet negotiated the repayment contract. That contract will be negotiated as rapidly now as we can get together with the water users, and we will propose to transfer the works to them as part of that contract negotiation. MAINTENANCE OF IRRIGATION FACILITIES Mr. RABAUT. For the Missouri River Basin project it appears that you are continuing to maintain irrigation facilities on a number of projects, and irrigation districts have been in existence for some time. Specifically, why should money be appropriated for this purpose on the following units: Bostwick, Crow Creek, Fort Clark, Frenchman-Cambridge, Heart Butte, and Sargent? (The information requested follows:) These six units are in varying stages of completion. The area of the Bostwick unit in Nebraska, approximately 24,000 acres, will be turned over to the water users for operation on January 1, 1957, but in accordance with the amended repayment contract with the irrigation district the Bureau of Reclamation will continue maintenance until January 1, 1958, when the entire responsibility will be transferred to the water users. The same policy will be pursued with the Bostwick unit acreage in Kansas as soon as each development block is completed. Only 1,540 acres of the total 5,000-acre irrigable area of the Crow Creek pump unit are now being irrigated and the irrigation district which represents the 1,540 acres is not yet in a position to execute a repayment contract or to take over operation and maintenance of the project facilities. Operation and maintenance is being handled by the Bureau of Reclamation with funds advanced by the water users as specifically provided by the Congress in the act of August 12, 1955 (69 Stat. 697). The Fort Clark unit is completed to serve approximately 2,040 acres. The repayment contract provides that the Bureau of Reclamation will operate and maintain the project facilities during the 10-year development period provided therein. The development period started on January 1, 1956. The Frenchman-Cambridge unit, comprising 22,000 acres, will be turned over to the water users for operation and maintenance on January 1, 1957, in accordance with the terms of the amended repayment contract. The balance of the project will be transferred to the water users as completed, in accordance with the contract stipulations. The first portion of the Heart Butte unit serving approximately 2,500 acres will be completed during the current year and will enter full operation and maintenance status for the first time in fiscal year 1957. The repayment contract with the Western Heart River Irrigation District provides for the water users to take over operation and maintenance at the beginning of a 7-year development period. It is anticipated that this will be effective either on January 1, 1957, or on January 1, 1958. The Sargent unit is still under construction with some features entering operation and maintenance status for the first time during fiscal year 1957. It is planned to transfer operation and maintenance to the water users upon completion of construction of the entire unit. TRANSMISSION DIVISION Mr. RABAUT. The amount programed for the transmission division is double the amount available in 1956. Do you actually have that much more maintenance work to do? Mr. CAMPBELL. There is some deferred maintenance, sir, and there is roughly an increase of some seven or eight hundred miles in transmission lines to be maintained, also. Mr. RABAUT. What did you do this year? Mr. CAMPBELL. We let it slide in many instances. Mr. RABAUT. What did you do with the money you got, then? What is your unexpended balance, and as of what date? Mr. DEXHEIMER. We don't have a separate figure for the transmis sion division part of the O. and M. program, Mr. Chairman. We can supply it for the record. Mr. RABAUT. Supply it for the record. (The information requested follows:) The accrued unexpended balance on March 31, 1956, for the transmission division operation and maintenance was $1,257,040. Mr. RABAUT. Thank you very much, gentlemen. TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1956. COLUMBIA BASIN Mr. RABAUT. We will take up the Columbia Basin. GENERAL INVESTIGATIONS, CORPS OF ENGINEERS Mr. RABAUT. We have "General investigations." There are four projects at a cost of $305,600. We will insert page 1 in the record. (The information referred to is as follows:) COLUMBIA BASIN JUSTIFICATION OF ESTIMATE GENERAL INVESTIGATIONS, FISCAL YEAR 1957 1. Examination and surveys (a) Navigational studies.-None. (b) Flood-control studies.-The amount of $55,600 is requested for completion of 1 study and continuation of work on 2 studies in the Columbia Basin. The tentative allocations by studies follow: (c) Special studies.-The amount of $250,000 is requested for work on the Columbia River review study during fiscal year 1957. 1 Exclusive of $220,000 for Columbia River (Rock Island Dam to Chief Joseph Dam) for which funds were appropriated in fiscal year 1956 under flood-control studies. COLUMBIA RIVER REVIEW STUDY Mr. RABAUT. $250,000 is requested to initiate the Columbia River review study in 1957. What will this special study cover? General FOOTE. The prior study of the Columbia Basin was completed in 1948. Since that time there have been a substantial number of changes taking place in the basin. One of the prime elements of the 1948 study was the main control plan for control of floods in the Columbia River Basin which contemplated some 21 million acrefeet of flood-control storage. In the interim since that report was completed it has become very apparent that several of those reservoir projects which were anticipated and were an essential part of that plan are not infeasible of development, so that we are left in the Columbia Basin at this time with a prospect of achieving only some 50 percent of the necessary storage for flood control on that river. It is therefore very important that the report be reviewed and that the main control plan be reconstituted. Mr. RABAUT. How long has it been since a similar study was made? General FOOTE. The prior study was completed in 1948, Mr. Chair man. Mr. RABAUT. Do you think $250,000 is necessary for this? General FOOTE. Very necessary, sir. It is very important to that region that the restudy be made, sir. ADVANCE ENGINEERING AND DESIGN, CORPS OF ENGINEERS Mr. RABAUT. For "Advance engineering and design" there are four projects totaling $638,000. We will insert pages 2 and 3 in the record. (The matter above referred to is as follows:) COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN JUSTIFICATION OF ESTIMATE CONSTRUCTION, GENERAL, FISCAL YEAR 1957 Advance engineering and design Funds in amount of $658,000 will be applied to 1 navigation, 1 flood-control, and 2 multiple-purpose projects having a total estimated cost of $369,315,000. Preconstruction planning will be completed on the navigation and flood-control projects and continued on the multiple-purpose projects. 76331-56-51 |