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Show Washington Hearings Set Thursday On Glen Canyon Legislation WASHINGTON Hearings Hear-ings on Glen Canyon National Nation-al Recreation Area legislation legisla-tion will continue in Wash, ington Juno 8 before the House Interior Subcommittee Subcommit-tee on Parks and Recreation, Rep. Sherman P. Lloyd, R-Utah R-Utah announced Wednesday. Seven members of the subcommittee sub-committee spent the Mem. orial Day weekend in Utah inspecting the Lake Powell area and conductng field hearings in Kanab on Saturday. Sat-urday. Rep. Lloyd said government govern-ment and Congressional witnesses wit-nesses would be called to testify at the upcoming Washington hearings. "I want to move ahead on this legislation without delay, de-lay, and I am pleased that the Washington hearing has been scheduled so closely following the Utah hearings,' Lloyd said. "There is some evidence that we may be able to work out an agreement among the Utah Congressional delegation delega-tion before June 8, and I am hopeful that we may present a compromise bill at that time," he said. There are three bills pending pend-ing hefore the House sub committee. A bill introduced by Rep. Lloyd would create a permanent recreation area and a Canyon Country National Nati-onal Conservation Area around ar-ound Lake Powell, and would authorize Utah State Highway High-way Department to build'a scenic road from Glen Canyon Can-yon City to Bullfrog Basin, crossing the Escalante River Riv-er at Lake Powell. A second bill sponsored by. Sen. Frank E. Moss, D-Utah, which has already passed the Senate, would create a recreation area slightly larger lar-ger than the Lloyd bill. Ic would also authorize a study of roads in the area by federal fed-eral agencies and calls for a simultaneous study of pos. sible wilderness . designation for the Escalante River Canyon. Can-yon. The third bill, sponsored by Rep. K. Gunn McKay, D-Utah, D-Utah, establishes a recreation recrea-tion area similar to the Lloyd proposal, and authorizes the road study, but not the wilderness wild-erness study. Rep. Lloyd said he felt the language in the Senate-passed bill calling for a "study of the road is tantamount to killing the road proposal for many decades to come. "I feel we must specifically specific-ally authorize this road in the legislation not only to open up this spectacularly beautiful' area for everyone to see and enjoy, but to provide pro-vide for the first time in history access across ths southern part of Utah," Lloyd said. Approximately 80 witnesses, witness-es, . including local officials from southern Utah counties and representatives of various, var-ious, conservation groups from four western states, testified before the subcommittee subcom-mittee at Kanab on Saturday.' Satur-day.' State and local officials and residents of the area generally testified in favor of the Lloyd bill and th.3 specific authorization of the road. Witnesses from the conservation groups testified in oppostion to the road and for a road study, and a wilderness wild-erness study for the Eecalan-te Eecalan-te River. ' |