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Cai -jr Chairmzn:
As your office recucstcd on 1Farch 29, 1974, we are reporting on
the 3 uveaj of Reclration' _ cost of covstructi~g the Garrison divcrson
unit, one cfr the riittcrs ycu jnclu~cd in your' rtquect of hovexrter 14,
1973.
The expenei incrase in project ccst discissed herein are issues
whiich we t_-iev , to be r.atcrial an~d rclevant to the con~jressionfl over-
siqht and ai;ro riatiors coiumitl,_as in censidcring t-. Bureau of
Rclamation*S aP roprizLion- request fcr fizcal year 1975.
Our in~l.,s are tentative as wo have not tLolltdorrve
wok 'hE C t t 3 I n rMore oCEaii Or, dti 0.'e YsS c.;-c
quested in tha near future.
INTRODUCTIM~
The Garrison diverslcn unit, a nultiporpose water reSOiircqs develop-
ment project hbeing ccnstric:.-d in Ncrtn Loa .za uy the Burea.u of RectAr;a-
tior1, was ,uthorized cy Pu-iic Law 6-10a' eractUJ Augdst 5, 19-55. Under
SQction Of U12 aCt, V1. Lc~nress eszabiisrca d, ceilinqj on appropria-
t~cns for consiructina th, p~roject cf $2&ZV7 -million, Pius or rninus such
amot,;nts, if L-Xy, as r.zy t, justified by reasm' of ordinary fluctuations
in constructicn cos-.s as ir icatc4 LY engineering cost in.~exes applicaole
to the ty~cs of construCLion Invamv.,i in Ma~ raject.
According to the 2-urvcti's appro-Iriation justification for fiscal
yedr l7,ccn;SL,'U~tiC-r o,' t-io Girrisn unit v.as estiratcd to be about
18 percer.t c%- 'Akte. Yic ureau ri2c ruce-ivcd aitotr:_nts totaling
Lional for -4-scal )ZL.r IL'7:, ard n_ c estiz-ated trie talance to comolete
tha- orojecL a . 211.4 z-fll;3n. TY,: Furc~u et-tdth-2 total FPderal
2-a.
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