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Show Moss Tries to Shake Loose Canyonlands Road Building Fund ( WASHINGTON, D. C. -Senator Frank E. Moss, D-Utah D-Utah last week released a series of letters, he has written writ-ten to government agencies to shake loose bureaucratic tie us that are holding back the much needed road work necessary to develop fully the newly expanded CanyonlanJs National Park. After an exchange tif letters and several meetings with' National Park Service Director, Direct-or, George B. Hartzog, Jr., Muss said that he was assured assur-ed of the expenditure of more titan $l million for the construction con-struction of the Squaw Flat Road to Big Springs Canyon Bridge which will help open up the area of the park to the now impacted more developed de-veloped areas. "To assure that the Park Service will be ready to construct con-struct the road during the good .weather months," Moss told Hartzog, "I am contacting contact-ing the Federal Highway Ad ministration to urge imrned-ate imrned-ate completion of a suitable design for the Squaw Flat Rjad, and I am also writing to Mr. Ruekel.shaus, Administrator Admin-istrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lo see that clearance is expedited expedit-ed on the environmental impact im-pact statement which is due for review in Washington later la-ter this month." Moss said he plans to go Appropriations Subcommittee in March to support Park Service requests for Canyonlands Canyon-lands funds .The Senator said he also requested Hartzog to furnish data on areas where additional funds could be uc.-td uc.-td to good advantage in fiscal 1973 in the planning and building build-ing of roads that would make visiting the park easier and more pleasant. "People in the Canyonlands area are extremely disappointed disap-pointed with the performance of the Park Service in opening open-ing up the Park through road construction," Moss said. "And they have a right to be disillusioned. The delays have been inexcusable, in rny opinion," the Senator wrote the Park Service Director. "At a time when Americans are clamoring to get into Our national parks each summer, many of them are too crowded crowd-ed for enjoyment, but Canyonlands Can-yonlands is empty for lack of roads and camp sites." |