Show Bureau of Reclamation Crews To Return Monday for Work I Bureau Dureau of Reclamation crews will return to Moab next Monday to complete survey work on the propos proposed d Pack Creek water proJect project pro pro- It was learned late last week in a letter from Parley Jarley R. R Neeley area engineer for the Bureau Bureau Bur Bur- eau at Spanish Fork The lett letter r was addressed to William Boulden Dould Bould- en chairman of the Grand Soil Soli Conservation district parent organization organization or or- for the local committee formed to speed work on the pro pro- In a telephone conversation with Mr Neeley on Tuesday The Times-Independent Times learned that he would arrive In Moab on 1 I 1 ues ues- day at which time he would meet with the local committee A meeting meetIng meet meet- ing has been called calle for the group on Tuesday evening at at atthe atthe atthe the county courthouse where Mr Neely will present the Bureau of Reclamation views and findings so far Mr Neeley's letter stated Our present plans Include the Initiation Initiation initiation initia Initia- tion of soil soli surveys for the Pack Creek project on May 13 I hope to accompany the soils solis technIcians technicians clans to Mo Moab b on this date and will look forward to meeting with your group In other correspondence this week Regional Director E. E O. O Larson of the Bureau Dureau of Reclamation Reclamation Reclamation mation stated We appreciate the Interest and support of the various groups of your district In their general overall overall over ver- over verall all support of the Pack Creek project This support Is again reflected reflected re reo In your letter of April 8 8 In which you urge early com com- of the report on this pro pro- We are still attempting to keep our scheduled program for submitting the report as indicated In the last meeting Mr Neeley had with your group This report is scheduled for the spring of 1958 I am sure your people understand understand under under- understand stand the extreme pressure to reduce reduce reduce re re- duce the federal budget and that the work that can actually be bedone bedone bedone done this summer depends on the funds appropriated by b Congress You realize it may be that some units will be temporarily postponed postponed post post- In the Interest of reducing the federal budget but wa we wish to a assure ure you we will win do Q the best we can for your project within the funds made available We anticipate that the budget for the Bureau of Reclamation will be acted upon by the Congress Congress Con Con- gress grass about the first of July After that we will win be in a position tj J give you more definite definite- Information Ion tion concerning the feasibility re se- port It was also learned this week that Congressman William A. A D a w s son o 0 n fl representative from Utah's second congressional district dist rl ha had urged rg d the they y Washington office or the Bureau or Reclamation Reclamation tion to seriously consider the pro pro- Mr Dawson told Commissioner Commis Wilber A. A Dexheimer in correspondence last week Faced with the problems of a rapidly expanding population officials and citizens of the Moab area have requested a completion of the feasibility report on on the pr proposed proposed pro pro- posed Pack Creek Water Project at the earliest possible date As they point out recent growth has altered many of the factors which I in the Bureaus Bureau's earlier 1953 report I hope this project proposal now can be reviewed re se- viewed in the light of changed conditions Congressman Henry A. A Dixons Dixon's Dix Dix- Dixons Dixon's ons on's office in Washington Informed Inform inform- ed ad the Times-Independent Times by telephone Wednesday that they had received the correspondence from the local committee but as asyet asyet asyet yet no official action had been taken |