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Show McKay -As pi nail Sponsor Act for Area Conservation Washington, D. C. Utah Representative Gunn McKay announced today that he will co-sponsor legislation to amend am-end the Soil Conservation and Domestic AliuUiicnt Act to provide for a Four Corners i Area Program. The Utah Congressman will co-sponsor the bill with Representative Rep-resentative Wayne N. Aspinall (D Colo.) with the Act to bo cited a.s the "Four Corner-; Area Conservation Act." Passage of the Act would allow the government to enter en-ter into contracts with land owners and operators in the Four Corners Area of Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico to assist farm, ranch, or other land owners or operators oper-ators to make orderly changes chang-es in cropping and land and range management systems to control erosion, sedimentation sedimen-tation .salinity and pollutant problems in the area. Congressman McKay reports re-ports the Act would cover farms, ranches and other lands including Indian Trust lands in the counties of Utah Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado not now within the Great Plains Conservation Program. lie also reported that the program authorized under th'! proposed change in the oil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act would be in addition to, and not in substitution sub-stitution of, other programs in such areas authorized by this or any other act. |