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Show Domfiiy Predicts Record Reot$ Yeer for Two Upper. Colorado 1.1 (Special to the T-l) Washington Reclamation Commissioner Floyd E. Dom-iny Dom-iny has predicted a record year for two Upper Colorad recreation areas Glen Canyon and Curecanti corraling a total of 1.2 million mil-lion visitors. lie did so during recent hearings on the $1,350,000 request re-quest in the 1970 budget for Upper Colorado recreation areas before the Senate Appropriations Ap-propriations Committee. He estimated the number of visitors at Glen Canyon on the Colorado River between be-tween Arizona and Utah r.t 8JO.t;00, and at the Curecanti Curecan-ti reservoirs on the Gunnison Gunni-son river at 430,000 this season. sea-son. Sen. Gordon Allot, R-Colo , a member of the Committer said that the Upper Colorado Colo-rado project, originally conceived con-ceived primarily to conserve water in the Upper Basin states, had turned out "to be a fantastic bonanza from a recreation standpoint." He asked Dominy how many visitors were expected at Currcanti this season. Dominy agreed that the Upper Colorado reservoirs generally and Curecanti reservoirs res-ervoirs in particular, had become "a fantastic yielder of days of use of people enjoying en-joying thm." At Curecan'i. "the visitations increased from approximately 2 hi.o 1 i in to 3'2.0!0 in 1908 ar.d wo estimate we will have c'ose to 4 '0.000 people using ihe Curecanti area in 1909." Dominy said. Allott attributed part of the attraction of the area to "the great Black Canyon area, ar-ea, which is fantastic insofar inso-far as scenerv is concerned." concern-ed." Allott asked what was planned in ibe wey of recreation rec-reation facilities at Ihe Curecan'i Cur-ecan'i res- rvoirs. primarily at Blue Me-'i. Dominy sad the money being us d for recreation facilities i:i the area is goriT nnin'y in'.i Ciiinpgrjunds, ' boat ramps, acccs-s reads and toilet filed fil-ed ties-. Of the total requested for rerxention facilities this next fiscal year (197;, ';ll thousand is for Curecanti. J 1.10 thousand for Glen Can- j on: $13) thousand for Ihr-on Ihr-on reservoir in northern New Mexico, and $1 ".'). G thousand is for Starvation Recreation area in Utah. In addition, $0.10 thotrard is being requested in f -:e.d 1070 for fMi and wi'dllfe enhancement en-hancement on Ihrse Upp'-r Colorado recreation areas. Of Flaming Gorge reservoir, Dominy told Allott. "It has the finest fishing up there 'eu can i!ri,...-,t . all r.f tho x'.': ' T!"-'e is no ,ras!' fl-h. am' ?rc''v like m-H I J. ist beer, j,.., ; P'p'f- from'c-' b"f!1 Flns (, r.' PC-" in ,Vi(ji;j,. I from l"t,-h j'., which the rZ. Dominy tr'H |