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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 3 Media Coverage Appropriations Central Utah Project, page 3 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Date | 1965-03-11; 1965-02-19; 1965-03-11; 1965-02-19; |
| Format | 3 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; DESERET NEWS march 11 1965 B ooinevs e P 0 euit euie befit efit P ugh LM R k 435 43.5 million requested to begin com plex job V by LEO PERRY ERRY P deseret news N ews aws staff whiter writer wri ter A resolution requesting more than 35 3.5 35 3 5 million to begin construction on the bonneville ivl ivi lleunit unit of the sprawling central utah water project was mailed this week to president johnson and the congress 1 t the resolution which was passed by the upper colorado river commission at a recent meeting seeks funds to begin begins the bonnevillo bonneville Bonne villo project the largest and most complex unit of the project total cost of the unit will be about 300 million REPAY PLAN delegates to the river commission from utah new mexico colorado wyoming and the federal government noted in the i resolution that negotiations currently are under way between the central utah water conser vancy district and the bureau of reclamation on a repayment contract for the construction costs the contract between the district and the government is expected to be prepared by early fall under the terms of the contract the bureau of reclamation builds the water projects and the conservancy district Di strict striet sells the water to various mu rrt nicipalities companies and ini int 0 dustrial oustrial du Ou strial concerns and repays the government 0 TIIE THE DRIVER v key man in the operation of s the seven county district is 47 47 .47 year old oid lynn S ludlow who a works under direction of the disc tracts tricts t n board of directors B mr ludlow former general generald manager of the garkane gardane powerl poferl power association and irrigation specialist J with the ruraleiectrifica rural electrifica tion adminstration administration in the department part ment of agriculture will have the desp kesp responsibility onsibility to see that functions run smoothly between the tlle tile conservan conservant Con conservancy servan cy district and the bureau of reclamation as well as administer the districts program to water and power users the plans for work are progressing nicely we hope to move into fiscal 1966 with the eg inning of construction on the I 1 bonneville unit mr ludlow explain axplained explained ed acour actur actually the central utah project which is considered to 30 the most important future water vater resource development program in utah began with the he initial phase the vernal nit in 1962 construction of this 8 million unit was completed 1962 providing supplemen suppleffien supplement il water for about 15000 acres f land in ashley valley the me vernal crnal ernal arnal unit is a local devel opment pment ament oiment in the uintah basin which ihich chich was organized under a i conservancy district the ile tle bonneville unit largest nd most complex unit of the entral central antral utah project involves involve ro viding the maximum practi pracki bib lib bid jennett jennetten jennettjn i q nn e t Jn n ped peg for forch CUP U W funds fund I 1 washington sen wallace wailace F benneter bennettr bennett R utah utht rutht a told tola toik the thesenate senate today toda y that the elimination n a tion of construction constructi construct constructs i on funds 16 for fon r the bonneville unit of the c61il central trai fral utah project 111s is false faise fa im jec econ on omy om Y which cannot be toler tolen toien tol toi abed ated 1 47 4 the utah R republican ep palican pblican in in his senate speech said that when erl eil the budget aa 4a was s submitted submifted sub mi fed ted to congress the people of utah uti were W ere understandably un derstaridab y sho shocked cl6& and dismayed to learn r that thab a t no funds were included to begin ca c0 construction of the 300 million bonneville bo nn eville unit s he also placed into ih the 6 con don eon oon gression egression gressional gres sion slon al record a lett iett letter ietter er irom from lynn S ludlow general manager of bf the central utah utahcoil7 conservancy ser sen servan vancy icy district and a r resolution f es lutibn1rorn from T te arpi trpi utah ua u6 h water alterah aterah and power P 0 we r boar board d sof hoh both bof h of which stressed the importance 1 of the need for construction iund funds fund tins this tius year 1 mr ludlow told tolds sen en bennett bendett it was with great concern conc ernthat that 1 the board of directors of thei thea thej central utah water conserv cons6r consert consar V gancy ID district received the news i y that the presidents president budget did jo not note noti include funds 2 fr he said further after such a determined delerminedand and successful successf succes sf u P effort zo by so many and then 1hen ahen to receive this disap digap disappointing pointing and nd un expected unexpected news itis ills itls it is indeed i naad nxad a shock the board could see no f justifiable ijustifiable reason reasor reasorifor ifor for its delay the utah water and power powen pow i board resolution said it irea lrea reaf j firms its position positionthat that the in in itial fitial phase of the cen central trai utah project is the states number one item of priority in iri irl the th e dej e velopment of its water resources and does hereby urge the united states congress to appropriate 35 3.5 35 million for the he t initiation of construction in fiscal year 1966 se sen n bennett B ennett said aid sald ald s he would go before the appropriations appropriatl appropriate on S committees and press for fon forthe the 6 funds for cops cons construction tructiom the central utah project nti All is j the heart and soul for utah of f the entire upper colorado river r project for through throu 9 h it utah will realize the major portion of he herl r share of the water of the colorado river now backing up behind the large dams dam S he told the senate i j utahs autu futu future re econ acon oconbin ocon pconomtc oin bin c growth depends upon tipon it he said |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/87 |
