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Show Court decision on this case could be a temporarily delaying factor on the project. Sen. Moss said the California comments on the Dixie Project proposes submission of an inventory in-ventory of water supply and uses in the full Colorado River Basin and in the individual state whenever when-ever a report is made on a potential po-tential project in the basin. Sen. Moss pointed out that the Bureau of Reclamation makes such an inventory whenever a water project pro-ject is investigated, and said he felt the California request was unnecessary. The Senator said he anticipated anticipat-ed no problems with the Department Depart-ment of Interior report on Dixie as a result of the adverse California Cali-fornia comments, and predicted that a favorable report would reach the Congress shortly. California Raising Objections to Utah's Dixie Project The state of California has raised some objections to the Dixie Reclamation Project, Sen. Frank E. Moss said this week. The Senator expressed confidence, confi-dence, however, that despite the adverse comments of California the Department of Interior will find the project feasible and will shortly recommend its authorization authori-zation to Congress. Moss revealed that the California Califor-nia comments on the project, not made public by the Department, questioned whether there was enough uncommitted water to meet the requirements of the Dixie Project. Since the water would be drawn from the Virgin and Santa Clara rivers, tributaries tribu-taries of the Colorado, the views of California were sought on the project, along with those of the other lower basin states. "The California objections are in line with the state's historic opposition to the utilization of the waters of the Colorado by any other state. We in Utah remember re-member all too well the bitter battle California waged against the Colorado River Storage Project. Pro-ject. We won that project despite California's millions and we will win Dixie too. "I suppose we should have expected ex-pected California to go to any length to find grounds to oppose Dixie, but it does seem unbecoming unbecom-ing for a big and rich state like California to oppose impoundment impound-ment of a small amount of water to irrigate a few thousand acres in arid southern Utah, and to provide the small communities there with additional municipal water and power." Sen. Moss said the California comments on the Dixie project also strongly recommended that no new Lower Basin projects be authorized until the Colorado-Arizona Colorado-Arizona law suit over the division divi-sion of the river's water is settled set-tled in the U. S. Supreme Court. This Court has now scheduled additional arguments on this case for the first week of the new term of the Court in October. Mr. Moss said the delay in a Supreme |
