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Repayment contract. The Greenfields irrigation district has contracted to repay to the United States the entire cost of construction of the Greenfields division. Construction charges will be based upon 5 percent of the average crop value and will start with an annual installment of less than $1 per acre. The construction charge has not been definitely determined, but the cost probably will be about $100 per acre. The district is now operating and maintaining the completed units of the division.

The Fort Shaw irrigation district also has a contract with the Government for repayment of construction charges. This charge amounts to approximately $35 an acre.

Construction programs through the fiscal year 1937.-It is expected that the Gibson Dam spillway and Pishkun Canal enlargement will be nearing completion by the end of the fiscal year 1937. Enlargement of the Sun River Slope Canal and construction of the lateral and drainage systems will continue in progress beyond the fiscal year 1937.

Construction program for the fiscal year 1938.—In order to continue construction of the lateral and drainage systems and to complete farm unit surveys, $300,000 will be needed for the fiscal year 1938.

Estimated cost, Sun River project, Montana, Greenfields division, funds available and estimate for the fiscal year 1938

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1 Public Works allotment, $950,000; Emergency Relief allotment, $215,000.

Mr. LEAVY. Is the Sun River project a new one?

Mr. PAGE. No, sir; that is an old project, one that has been under construction for many years, and this estimate is for the purpose of building additional canals and laterals to furnish water to lands which have always been in the project, and for which water has not yet been provided.

Mr. LEAVY. Will this sum take care of your needs there?

Mr. PAGE. That is the same question again. This work could be expedited if more money were available. Perhaps I should mention that the Budget estimate on these amounts totaled exactly the amount furnished the Budget as the estimate which would be in the reclamation fund. In other words, these figures were cut to fit the anticipated revenues in the reclamation fund.

Mr. LEAVY. Your estimate was not always made with that in view?

Mr. PAGE. Well, in some cases.

Mr. LEAVY. Your estimate was made with regard to the immediate needs of the project through the fiscal year?

Mr. PAGE. Yes, sir.

CARLSBAD PROJECT, NEW MEXICO

Mr. SCRUGHAM. The next is the Carlsbad project in New Mexico for which an estimate of $200,000 has been submitted. Mr. PAGE. This is the justification:

Appropriation requested for fiscal year 1938: Reclamation fund.......

Funds available:

Emergency relief allocation__.

Reclamation fund, fiscal year 1937.

Amount necessary to complete after fiscal year 1938_.

Estimated cost..

$200,000

1, 000, 000 900, 000 None

-2, 100, 000

Location. Carlsbad project is located in southeastern New Mexico. The irrigable lands, and the two storage reservoirs, Avalon and Lake McMillan, are located in Eddy County near Carlsbad, N. Mex., while the Alamogordo Reservoir (now under construction) is located in Guadalupe and De Baca Counties near Fort Sumner.

Purpose.-The Carlsbad project was constructed several years ago to irrigate 25,055 acres of land along the Pecos River in the vicinity of Carlsbad and Malaga, N. Mex. Due to excessive seepage from McMillan Reservoir and in the canal system, the project water supply is now insufficient to produce maximum crops on the highly productive lands of the project. The purpose of the present construction program is to remedy this condition by supplying additional storage and by lining as much of the project canal system as may be found desirable. Description. This project was taken over by the Bureau of Reclamation in 1905 and was later reconstructed. The Government has spent $1,464,650 in the rehabilitation of Avalon Dam and Reservoir (downstream from McMillan Dam), and the reconstruction and extension for 145 miles of canals and laterals and about 18 miles of drains.

The present program includes the construction of the Alamogordo Reservoir and the lining of a portion of the project canals.

Alamogordo Dam is a combination rolled-earth embankment and rock-fill structure, having a maximum height of 142 feet and a crest length of about 1,550 feet.

In addition to the main dam, there will be a rolled-earth dike of a maximum height of 37 feet. The control works will be located in a tunnel situated in the right abutment of the dam. An open-channel spillway will also be located in the right abutment. The dam will contain about 1,559,000 cubic yards of rolled embankment and 270,000 cubic yards of rock-fill. The reservoir formed by the dam will have an estimated capacity of 157,000 acre-feet and cover about 4,520 acres of land.

Lining canals involves the placing of about 172,000 square yards of concrete lining in the main canal and lateral system of the project.

Estimated cost and funds available. The estimated cost of the new construction program is as follows:

Alamogordo Dam and appurtenant works.
Lining of canals and laterals.

Total...

$1,833, 500

266, 500 2, 100, 000

New construction work mentioned above was approved by the President on November 6, 1935, and $1,500,000 was allocated from the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. This allocation was later reduced to $1,000,000. The Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, appropriated $900,000 from the reclamation fund for continuation of construction.

The tabulation which follows presents data for the various features of the project, estimated costs, funds available, and funds needed to complete.

Repayment contract.-Approximately 85 percent of the original construction costs on this project have been repaid under a contract with the Carlsbad irrigation district. On January 16, 1936, the district entered into a supplemental contract with the United States for the construction of the Alamogordo Dam and the canal lining at a cost not to exceed $2,500,000, which, based on the project acreage, is approximately $100 per acre. Repayment is to be made in semiannual installments over a period of 40 years, beginning in 1944.

Construction in progress.-A contract for the construction of the Alamogordo Dam was executed January 25, 1936, and work was started on March 1. Good

progress is being made, and it is expected that the dam will be about 80 percent complete by June 30, 1937.

Construction proposed for fiscal year 1938.- Construction of the Alamogordo Dam will be completed early in 1938. Plans for the placing of the concrete lining will be completed and the placing of this lining by force account will be well along toward completion by the end of the fiscal yaar 1938. The estimated cost of the work considered necessary at this time is $2,100,000. The irrigation district executed a contract with a maximum repayment obligation of $2,500,000. Additional canal lining may be found necessary after 1938. However, the present program does not contemplate such work.

Carlsbad project, New Mexico Estimated costs, available funds, and estimate for fiscal year 1938

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+ Supplemental repayment contract sets limit of expenditure at $2,500,000

Mr. LEAVY. In New Mexico you have the Carlsbad project, for which you are asking $200,000.

Mr. PAGE. That is required to complete that project.

Mr. LEAVY. And that will complete it?

Mr. PAGE. Yes, sir.

Mr. LEAVY. Does that involve hydroelectric development?

Mr. PAGE. No; there is no development of hydroelectric power there.

DESCHUTES PROJECT, OREGON

Mr. LEAVY. In Oregon you have the Deschutes project. Is it a completed project now?

Mr. PAGE. The Deschutes project you are asking about?

Mr. LEAVY. Yes. There is no allowance made for that.

Mr. PAGE. That project has not yet been started, except for preliminary work. Money was appropriated in 1937. By the general provision to carry over the unexpended balance we hope money will be available during the 1938 fiscal year.

Mr. LEAVY. Is it a hydroelectric project also?

Mr. PAGE. NO. It is an old area which is inadequately supplied with water. It has been under cultivation, but not by irrigation from any Federal works.

Mr. RICH. You just want to get an authorization now for the work to proceed as a new project?

Mr PAGE. We have that authorization through the last year's appropriation We have not been convinced that the plans we had at that time were sufficient and adequate and have been doing some more investigation.

Mr. LEAVY. But the appropriation of last year is a sufficient amount, if it carries through, to accomplish your purpose?

Mr. PAGE. Yes.

Mr. LEAVY. Without any additional appropriation this year?
Mr. PAGE. No additional appropriation is needed at this time.

Mr. RICH. Let me ask this question right now: That statement of Tors is very significant, that you thought that any money which was appropriated by Congress for a certain project heretofore was authorization for your going ahead and starting or completing a oject without any specific statement to the Congress that the project should be established.

Mr PAGE. We made a statement to the Congress that the project should be adopted, but our projects have never been specifically a.thorized in an authorizing act. The basic law sets up the machinery by which they are adopted under a certain rule of procedure.

Mr. RICH. I wish the members of the committee would get that, For that looks as though if they received an authorization heretofore, It seems to be sufficient for the Department of the Interior to go head with their ideas as to what ought to be done to complete this project.

Mr. LEAVY. I understand, Mr. Rich, they are basing it on the nginal Reclamation Act of 1902, I think it was.

Mr. PAGE. Yes; that is true. This procedure was established in

The act of 1902.

KLAMATH PROJECT, OREGON-CALIFORNIA

Mr. SCRUGHAM. The next one is the Klamath project on the Oregon-California border for which $125,000 is asked.

Mr. PAGE. I submit at this time the justification for this item:

priation_requested for fiscal year 1938:

Reclamation fund: Construction, Tule Lake division.......

Reclamation fund (act of June 26, 1936).

I made available:

Pe Works allotment.

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$120,000

5, 000

61, 000 135, 000 6, 434, 000

720, 000 7, 475, 000

I can. The project is located in southern Oregon and northern California, the vicinity of Klamath Falls, Oreg. The irrigable area extends east and theast in Klamath County, Oreg., and Siskiyou County, Calif., as far south T ** Lake.

P-A large area in the Tule Lake division, on the south side of the proas been drained and is under irrigation. The purpose of the appropriation 3000 for 1938 is to continue the construction of canals in Tule Lake division. appropriation of $5,000 will be used to investigate Clear Lake watershed rights ized by the act of June 26, 1936.

Drevenéron.The irrigation system of the Klamath project includes a dam for ateg the storage of water in Upper Klamath Lake; headworks at the lake ma.", canal, including a tunnel 3,300 feet long, to transport water to the irri: - southeast of Klamath Falls; Clear Lake Reservoir in California and Reservoir in Oregon for storing water for the irrigation of lands in Langell and a diversion dsm and canal for diverting excess water from Lost River fer to aid in removing water from the Tule Lake area. The distribution ↑ item nebudes nearly 400 miles of canals snd laterals and about 150 miles of open The irrigation system now provides for the irrigation of about 61,000 acres, acres of which were farmed in 1936, producing crops valued at nearly

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Estimated costs and funds available. The estimated cost of the Klamath project is $7,475,000, including $3,346,000 for the Tule Lake division.

Construction of canals, laterals, drains, and dikes has been in progress with funds provided by Public Works allotments of $61,000 an Emergency Relief allocation of $135,000.

A table containing data of estimated costs, funds available and funds needed to complete will be found at the end of this statement.

Repayment contracts.-Government construction charges for the completed units are being paid under the 40-year repayment plan. The water charges on the various divisions of the project are approximately $56 per acre for the Langell Valley irrigation district; $15 per acre for the Horsefly irrigation district (a part of the Langell division); $42 to $58 for the Main division, including the Klamath irrigation district; and $16 to $34 per acre, plus the cost of the pumping plants and distribution system, for the pumping division. The per-acre charge for the Tule Lake division has been fixed at $88. Water is being delivered on a waterrental basis. Repayment will be made under a 20-year plan, unless the water users organize an irrigation district, in which event repayment will be made under the 40-year plan.

Construction program.-Construction of the canals in the Tule Lake division has been in progress by Government forces under funds provided by the Public Works Administration and Emergency Relief allocations. An appropriation of $125,000 is requested for the fiscal year 1938. Of this amount $31,000 is for completion of 5.5 miles of the "J" canal. Completion of the canal will permit the wasting of water from pumping plants along the "D" canal, when power fails, directly to Tule Lake sump instead of passing the water through the Tule Lake pumping plants. Construction of 12 miles of laterals and parallel drains will require $55,000 and 10 miles of cross drains will require $34,000. This work will complete the lateral and drainage systems for an additional area of 5,000

acres.

Five thousand dollars is requested for investigations of Clear Lake water rights. The act of June 26, 1936 (Pub., 826, 74th Cong.), authorized and directed the Secretary (1) to make a full and complete investigation with a veiw to determining whether any dams, water works, or any other projects have been constructed in the Clear Lake watershed, in the State of California, in violation of the water rights of the United States in such State, and (2) to report thereon to Congress as soon as practicable. An appropriation of $5,000 is requested to carry out the purposes of this act.

Estimated costs, Klamath project, Oregon-California, funds available and estimate for fiscal year 1938

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Mr. LEAVY. The next is the Klamath project, Oregon. One hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars is requested from the reclamation fund, and nothing was requested last year. Is that a new project?

Mr. PAGE. No; that is an old project, and this is for the extension of a few canals, laterals, drains, and dikes, to permit the opening of a small additional area for settlement by the land owners in that vicinity.

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