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Show Little Dell Reservoir Faces Many Hurdles The proposed Little Dell Reservoir Res-ervoir project must leap many administration hurdles in a hurry if it is to be ready for Congressional Congres-sional action this session, Sen. Frank E. Moss said in Salt Lake City this week. He is a member of the Senate Committee on Public Works and of the important Subcommittee on Rivers and Harbors to which the matter has been referred by the Senate. Commenting on a March 27 public announcement by the U.S. Army Engineer Division that the report of the District and Division Di-vision Engineers is favorable to the project, Senator Moss noted that it still must be approved by up by the subcommittee. "I am asking Senator Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma, chairman of the subcommittee, to include Little Dell in any omnibus rivers riv-ers and harbors bill presented this session if the project can be cleared for committee action. I am also writing the Board of Engineers in Washington urging all possible speed on the hearing, and will do everything I can as a member of the subcommittee needed by the people of Salt to push this project which is Lake county," he said. The reporting officers have recommended that the proposed project be constructed with federal fed-eral funds at an estimated cost of $6,060,000. This does not include in-clude land, easements and rights of way, which are to be fur- nished by the locality. In addition addi-tion to its flood control function the project would add approximately approxi-mately 3,860 acre feet or 1.26 billion gallons of new water annually an-nually to Salt Lake's water sup-Ply- . - the Board of Engineers for Rivers Riv-ers and Harbors in Washington, be investigated by any federal bureaus who wish to be heard, and approved by the Bureau of the Budget and the Secretary of the Army before it can be taken |