Show Bennett Fears Red Tape Delay Asks Early Start Stort for Water Hollow Job Another years year's delay in the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project is feared unless quick approval is made of the thelow thelow low bid made on the Water Hol- Hol Hollow low Tunnel part of the he Straw Straw- Strawberry Strawberry berry Aqueduct SEN WALLACE F Bennett R Utah R-Utah ur urged ed the Commission Commission- Commissioner er of the Bureau of tion to do everything possible to expedite approval of the combined bid submitted by two Salt Lake City firms to construct the four and one half mile tunnel The bid well under the 63 million engineers estimate could wait 60 days for approval al through department red tape he said losing any chance for fall construction a 4 I 1 AM concerned that unless the usual administrative time is not cut back we may suffer another years year's delay in this long awaited construction job Sen Bennett wrote to Floyd E Dominy commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation Boyles Brothers Drilling Co and Gibbons and Reed Con Con- Construction Co were low loss bidders Sen Bennett Dennett claimer the con con- contractors tractors could move their equip ment into the area now ahead of winter weather and gain con con- considerable ground on the con con- construction construction program this year if quick approval Is given A LATE spring beginning af- af after after ter snows and slush shish are gone and possibility of late i winter weather in 1968 could lose a year in the construction program If there is anything the Bonneville Unit doesn't need its it's another years year's delay Sen Bennett said CONSTRUCTION time for the tunnel is estimated at 1150 days The tunnel will take water from the High Uinta Mountains In the Rock and Cur Cur- Current Current rent Creeks area and dump it into Strawberry Reservoir Sen Bennett pointed out that the Upper Colorado River Stor Stor- Stor Storage age Project was authorized in 1956 yet Utah is still fighting for appropriations and still try try- trying trying ing to get a construction pro pro- program gram underway on the major sections of the thc project |