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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 126
115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 115-96
TO AUTHORIZE THE USE OF THE ACTIVE CAPACITY OF
THE FONTENELLE RESERVOIR
JUNE 8, 2017.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 199]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 199) to authorize the use of the active capacity
of the Fontenelle Reservoir, having considered the same, reports,
favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that the
bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 199 is to authorize the use of the active capac-
ity of the Fontenelle Reservoir.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
Fontenelle Reservoir in the State of Wyoming is a principal fea-
ture of the Seedskadee Project, one of the initial projects author-
ized under the Colorado River Storage Project Act of 1956. Author-
ized uses of Fontenelle Reservoir storage water include irrigation,
fish and wildlife, recreation, flood control, and municipal and in-
dustrial water use, as primary purposes, with power generation
specified as the only secondary purpose.
Currently, Wyoming has the perpetual right to market 120,000
acre-feet of the original 190,250 acre-feet active capacity from the
reservoir. However, in order to increase the use of water storage
and supplies from the reservoir, infrastructure improvements must
be made to prevent erosion.
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