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tinued to emphasize construction over planning and "pre-investment." 

 Nevertheless, the scope of the latter has expanded enormously in re- 

 spect to range of subject-matter and fineness of detail. Technical train- 

 ing and large-scale agricultural experiment stations have assumed 

 much greater importance, and appear to be laying the groundwork for 

 progressive evolution of an infrastructure to exploit the resources de- 

 veloped in the civil engineering phase of the Project. 



Progress has been achieved, of course, in the dam-building work. On 

 tributaries of the Mekong, three small and two larger dams have been 

 completed in Thailand and Laos, along with associated power plants 

 and irrigation works. Three other tributary dams are funded and 

 under construction, although the largest, a $27 million facility on the 

 Prek Thnot tributary in the Khmer Republic, has been interrupted by 

 war. The total resources available to the Coordination Committee were 

 divided between construction ($144 million or 68 percent) and pre- 

 investment work ($69 million or 32 percent) . The four Riparian States 

 contributed $93 million or 44 percent if the total. As between loans 

 and outright grants, the latter accounted for $162.5 million or 76 

 percent. (For a listing of Operational Resources as of December 31, 

 1971, see Table 4. For a report of the status of construction and de- 

 velopment activities in 1972, see Table 5.) 



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