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Show Rainbow Bridge Meef Sef By Moss for Thursday Washington, D.C. Utah Senator Frank K. (Ted) Moss is arranging a iiieciing for Thursday, March 2'.), for interesti-d parties to discuss Rainbow Rain-bow Bridge. It will include Senators and Congressmen from Flah. Wyoming, C'olora-' C'olora-' do and New Mexico as i well as members of the Water and Power Subcommittees Sub-committees and the Sen-ale Sen-ale and House Interior Committees. Also invited are Congressmen Con-gressmen Mollis Udall of A riona and Harold T. Johnson of California. Moss has been urging immediate legislative action by the Interior Committee on the Rainbow Rain-bow Bridge matter since Chief Federal Judge Willis Riller ruled on an environmental case involving the world's largest natural arch. The Senator and acting act-ing Bureau of Reclamation Reclama-tion Commissioner Cil-bert Cil-bert C Stamm will conduct con-duct the briefing. Said Moss, "The urgency ur-gency of this situation must be brought home to my colleagues from the other states affected by Judge Ritter's ruling so we can get moving on this before it's too late." In his lellet' of invitation. invita-tion. Senator M o s s wrote, "If the Ritter decision de-cision ordering the Secretary Sec-retary of Interior to exclude ex-clude water from the Rainbow Bridge National Monument is allowed to stand, and it becomes necessary to draw down Lake Powell by four million mil-lion acre feet, the econ omic basis upon which the Colorado River Storage Stor-age Act rests will be undermined." Moss said fiver regulation, reg-ulation, power generation, genera-tion, water storage, recreation rec-reation and flood control for I'tah, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming will be placed in jeopardy. |