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Show Moss to Introduce Dixie Project Bill Wednesday Senator Frank E. Moss announced that he will introduce in-troduce a Senate Bill to authorize author-ize the Dixie Project. This project provides water for' irrigation of 16,200 acres in Washington County, Utah. It will require two dams, one on the Virgin River at Virgin City, the other on the Santa Clara River near Gunlock. Emphasizing that the regional director of the Bureau of Reclamation Recla-mation has not yet submitted his feasibility report, and that the bill's provisions may have to be revised when that report is completed. com-pleted. Senator Moss said: A. 7 "Early introduction of the bill will put the matter before Congress Con-gress and let the Senate Interior Committee of which I am a member, know that the Dixie Project is being readied for Congressional Con-gressional action. This will help prepare the way for hearings and full consideration as soon as the facts have been sufficiently sufficient-ly reported by the Interior Department. De-partment. "In . addition to the two dams, the bill calls for tunnels, canals, pumping plants and other works an adjacent hydroelectric power plant and transmission system at Virgin City, and diversion works for. the dispersion of saline sa-line water at LaVerkin Springs. The Senator recalled that the interest rate provisions on the Colorado River Storage Project, written to be based on yield of governmental obligations, had had to be rewritten to be based on the interest cost rate. He continued: "In my Dixie Project bill, I have followed exactly the interest in-terest rate language of the Norman Nor-man bill which was passed by Congress last year setting 1 the rate on the basis of the computed average interest rate payable by the treasury upon its outstanding outstand-ing marketable obligations." Discussing a time table for the project, Senator Moss said that after the preliminary report gets to Washington, it must be reviewed re-viewed by the Interior Department Depart-ment and submitted to the state of Utah for study and comment. Final consideration of the bill might not come until the 1962 session of Congress, he said. |
