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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 14 Media Coverage Appropriations Central Utah Project, page 14 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Date | 1968-01-10; 1968-07-16 1968-01-10; 1968-07-16; |
| Format | 14 text/PDF |
| Rights | Brigham Young University; http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/generic.php Public Domain Public |
| Language | English; eng; en |
| Relation | Central Utah Project; Western Waters Digital Library; A k maa rih mma i 1 A & i i S d THEDA THE DA DAILY dally lly ILY iry HERALD january 10 1968 y N at yt r n rm r ik B R i L rag rac sy i 1 & v i aw 4w za z3 mimon r il hion fion bion budget pudget U id g bt ror CUP soug boug sought htby haby by bennett washington DC S senator en wallace F bennett R butah jutah utah has asked interior secretary Stew stewart artL L udall to give the bonne lile llie ilie ille ille 1116 .1116 lile unit of the central utah project a major new I 1 push this year providing this vital cons construction truction eruction truc tion program iwith idith with 25 million in the next budget the utahn made the resqust resquest renquest res quest in in a letter to the secretary it was disclosed here today fiscal 1969 will be one of the major and perhaps one of the dhe most crucial construction years for the bonneville unit senator bennett told the secretary 25 million urged since the administration Is c currently reviewing its programs grams for the budget which will be submitted to congress later this month I 1 am writ in respectfully to urge your AL department part ment to provide the of 25 million senator bennett said water experts and engineers have made a careful study of the cons cong truc program for this very important project and in the inte i of sof lof engineering efficiency i so thatno thatro that no valuable time is lin in the timetable we will at least that amount of money expresses thanks I 1 i the utah republican who is ls the only current member of the utah delegation who was wash wasl in washington when the original upper colorado river storage project was passed in 1956 also expressed the thanks of utahna utahns to the interior department as well as to the priations privations committees of coni gress gross iress for the ili iii 11.1 111 million construction st funds in fiscal 1968 he said prior to last year central utah projects bonneville unit which will take water from the uinta basin and put it in the populous bonneville basin had been the victim of delays and land uncertainties tain ties however now that we nye lve vve have the project back on a fl fairly irly reasonable track I 1 am hopeful that we can main maln maintain tairi the construction momentum i necessary to keep it on schedule use of funds senator bennett said that the funds would be used for continued construct construction lon ion of dams and tunnels for the complex unit the starvation dam consee 25 MILLION page 4 yeb y2b million continued from page one st ruction program will con tinue dinue tunnels will be lined a feeder supply system for strawberry reservoir needs to be built and the enlargement of strawberry reservoir m must u s t commence he told the secretary lie he lle ile pointed out that on dec dee I 1 4 a 55 35 5.5 55 million contract for & the construction of the water hollow lowtunnel tunnel was awarded close timetable this contract was for the longest of a three sectiontun section tunnel in order that the other two tunnels can be completed at the same time as the first a very close timetable must be followed and there must be hio fio no slippage he said ivaldi ivaddi in addition the enlargement of 0 the e reservoir completion of the dam and the other phases of the project are all timed and geared together in an intricate program designed to provide the people with water in the uinta basin hasin at th the e same time timed moving the additional water to the bonneville basin all work started on contracted thus far is in the uintah basin J WX the salt lake tribune july 16 1968 ttahp utah project to gani gain y ni 11 milli million oii 011 oil tribune washington bureau washington the bureau ieau6f of reclamation plans to spend 11444000 11444 000 ODO during this thi thl s fiscal y year yean ear on the bonneville unit of the central centrat centrad utah project I 1 this was reported monday by sen frank E moss dutah D utah after the senate appropriations committee approved the annual money bill f for fon or publiavorks public works projects the committee allowed 7291000 for the bonneville unit which was ivas the same amount as the house public work appropriations bill con fain tain tained bained ed however sen moss held this amount v9uldbe would be s augmented by 4153000 in bureau of reclmation reclamation c carryover funds the senator said this was theam6unt the amount requested by the the I 1 administration but not quite as much as asked for by members of the utah congressional V delegation and other II 11 state officials when they ap peared pcarcd feared before the senate and ihouse ahouse house appropriations corni mittees intittees mitteer mit tees the same bill also coni T tained bained 1700 1700000 ooo 000 ODO to co complete ithe iohd ithd I 1 the lmmillion 100 loo million dollar webe weber B basin as in reclamation project atthe ftthe e senator yator tator mator noted r i nnw tor j t i 1 IA mi im i r ina in1 eif 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| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/76 |
