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Show FJtes casks (for $246,00.0 fioir loral fish GicaffcEieiry this year, the second phase could be delayed until Fiscal Year 1965." Senator Frank E. Moss (D-Utah) (D-Utah) Friday urged the Interior Inter-ior subcommittee of the Senate Sen-ate Appropriations Committee to give the 47-year-old Springville Spring-ville National Fish Hatchery "a new start in life." The Fish and Wildlife Service Moss said, estimates that a complete renovation job, undertaken under-taken in two phases, could be done for $246,000. "The first phase would cover a water improvement program carried out through collection of spring flows, protection of intake facilities, and installation installa-tion of pipeline facilities to provide pro-vide an efficient system. This phase would also include the construction of a modern fish hatchery, which would incorporate incor-porate a small acquarium display dis-play room for the education of the visiting public. "The second phase would re habilitate present ponds, construct con-struct additional ponds, and build fences, roads and sidewalks," side-walks," he pointed out. At present the hatchery produces pro-duces rainbow and Brook trout, and some warm water fish for distribution to waters in national na-tional forests, Indian reservations, reserva-tions, and military reservations. The decreasing water supply makes it more and more difficult diffi-cult to meet current production produc-tion levels of 75,000 pounds of trout a year. The hatchery has a potential annual production of 125,000 pounds of trout a year, which would more adequately ade-quately stock the area, and more fully preserve and enhance en-hance the fisheries resources on lands under Federal control. con-trol. The first phase would cost approximately $168,000 and the second phase $78,000. If the first phase could be financed |