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THE PLAN OF DEVELOPMENT Phase I - Immediate Action Programs. Authorization of Construction. Construction or completion of Lower Basin Indian Projects. Planned for immediate authorization by Congress are the proposed Vaiva Vo Irrigation Project, a feature of the Santa Rosa Wash Multiple Purpose Project on the Papago Reservation, which has been planned by the Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Indian Affairs; and the White River Irrigation Project on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. Also planned is the completion of the Colorado River Project irrigation system, and rehabilitation and betterment of the San Carlos Reservation Irrigation systems. Improvement of drainage of Indian lands on the Yuma Project of the Bureau of Reclamation should be accomplished in the immediate future. A program of canal lining and other betterment works on all reservations will be undertaken as rapidly as funds can be secured. Urbanization of reservation areas near Phoenix and Tucson, development of recreational facilities, motels, resorts, etc., will require additional uses of water. Watershed programs. A Bureau of Indian Affairs' Range-Soil Survey crew is working on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation preparing a resources inventory on 1,664,872 acres of range land. This will provide a complete inventory which the Bureau will use to initiate management plans on the watersheds of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. In addition, the removal of undesirable vegetation will go forward on all watersheds, at the rate of 35,000 acres per year. In support of the watershed programs it will be necessary to continue conservation practices which annually approximate the construction of 10 miles of dikes, 237 diversion dams in protecting approximately 129 13Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 14,245,888 byte