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Show Reclamation Bureau Outlines Vigorous Program On 44th Birthday SALT LAKE CITY Forty-four Forty-four years old on June 17, the Bureau of Reclamation looks a-head a-head to a vigorous peacetime program pro-gram that promises new and rich-ij rich-ij er life for the "third of the Nail" Na-il" tion that was ill-watered by nature". nat-ure". Regional Director E. O. Larson in an anniversary summary of plans for the future added up some 415 projects benefiting nearly 10,000,000 additional acres that the seven regions of the Bureau Bu-reau has inventoried for the full and economical use of the rain and snow that falls in the 17 western states where the Bureau , functions. With a go-ahead sign from Congress, Con-gress, these projects could within with-in the next 10 to 15 years produce thousands of tons of food, feed and fiber to help meet the world-, world-, wide demands. , These projects, too, would produce pro-duce vitally needed hydroelectric power for all-essential development develop-ment of industry concurrently with agriculture. Region 4, over which Mr. Lar- son has supervision, has outlined some 140 of these potential projectsthose pro-jectsthose in Utah, Nevada, I western Wyoming, western Colo- r v' rado, and small sections of Idaho and New Mexico and is now beginning be-ginning detailed field investigations investiga-tions to determine their feasibility. feasi-bility. As if to herald start of the Bureau's Bu-reau's forty-fifth year, the Colorado Colo-rado Basin Report outlining 100 .'projects as possibilities for fut-f fut-f ure development of ' water re-1 re-1 K0UEes in Region 4 was adopted ?j e. Secretary of the Interior and submitted on June 17 to the (Jetary of War, Congressmen ana the Governors of Colorado ver Basin states. 1 ifx r,ePort is expected to as-Yrteh' as-Yrteh' Colorado, Wyoming uw Mexico in arriving at equitable division of upper basin vater under the Colorado River J-?mPact, and in determining ; vhich of the 100 potential oro- 1149 nnASti?g an estimated $930,-1,000 $930,-1,000 shall be recommended construction. A choice of projects pro-jects is necessary as the available lter supply is insufficient for Twenty six of 'the 100 projects are located in Utah and forty eight in Colorado. Close on the heels of the Colorado Colo-rado River development report as the Bureau winds up its forty-fourth forty-fourth year is Region 4's Bonneville Bonne-ville Basin Report, now being considered by officials in Washington, Wash-ington, D. C. This comprehensive plan for developing water resources re-sources along the Wasatch Front in Idaho, Utah, Nevada and Wyoming Wy-oming catalogues facts and figures fig-ures on 24 potential projects, two extensions and two improvements improve-ments of existing projects. Included In-cluded in this outline is the multimillion-dollar Central Utah Project, Pro-ject, which would convey life-giving life-giving water a distance of more than 300 miles through canals, tunnels and siphons from the Colorado watershed in northeastern northeast-ern Utah to the southwestern corner cor-ner of the state, developing some 1,900,000,000 kilowatt-hours of hydroelectric energy annually. |