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Show Rep. King Explains House Vote on Transmission System Rep. David S. King Wednesday Wednes-day said the House vote sustaining sustain-ing federal construction of the Upper Colorado River storage transmission system "simply reaffirms re-affirms the identical judgment already reached by the Interior Department under President Eisenhower, Ei-senhower, by the same department depart-ment under President Kennedy, and by the House Appropriations Appropria-tions Committee. "By this vote, the Congress has shown that it believes the Upper Colorado Project and its various participating units will be most fully and sufficiently developed through federal construction con-struction of these backbone lines," Mr. King observed. "Utah, with each of its sister states in the upper basin, went all out to get this great reclamation reclama-tion program. The basic aim of the program is, and always has been, water resource development. develop-ment. In its action today, the Congress chose the course which, in its judgment, would ultimately ulti-mately lead to the greatest resource re-source development. "Congress was satisfied that federal construction would provide pro-vide maximum revenue from the power sales," Mr. King said. "Since the participating units are developed from this revenue, this action was helpful to Utah because Utah has the biggest single participating unit in the entire program, which is the Central Utah Project." Mr. King commended Utah Power and Light Company and the other utility companies in the Intermountain Region on the plans they are making to expand both production and transmission transmis-sion facilities. "These companies, like nearly all other enterprises in the region, re-gion, will profit greatly from the Upper Colorado River Storage Project. They serve one of the nation's fastest-growing markets, mar-kets, and this reclamation work will give the region the water it so badly needs to continue, growing grow-ing steadily," Congressman King observed. "The growth and prosperity of our region are closely tied to the growth of the power companies, com-panies, and their current and projected expansion programs reflect the confidence which the Intermountain region has in its own potential, in its own ability to continue to grow and to prosper," pros-per," he said. |