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Show McKay Lloyd Join Forces to Submit Joint Bill on Glen Canyon Issue WASHINGTON - Utah's tf.vo Congressmen, Sherman P. Lloyd, (R) and K. Guim McKay, ll)), joined Tuesday in sponsoring a compromise bill setting permanent boundaries boun-daries for the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and aiitlitiriz,ng construct io:i of a road from Glen Canyon City to Bullfrog Basin. Introduction of the unusual joint bill ended several weeks of intensive negotiations negotia-tions which were capped by a meeting Monday in the S. Capitol between the two House, members, Sen Frank E. Moss, D-Utah, Governor Calvin Hampton, and a representative rep-resentative of Sen. Wallac. F. Bennett, R-Utah. The House Interior Subcommittee Sub-committee on Parks and Recreation Re-creation will hold an executive execu-tive mark-up session on the (biil when Congress relure.s from its recess for the Democratic Demo-cratic National Convention. Reps. Lloyd and McKay said all four members of the state's Congressional delegation dele-gation and the Governor had agreed at the meeting Monday Mon-day that any legislation passed pass-ed by Congress should authorize auth-orize the road from Glen Canyon City to Bullfrog Basin, Bas-in, crossing Lake Powell at the mouth of the Escalanle River. The Congressmen said in a joint statement that the "only "on-ly question remaining is -whether the stale should retain re-tain some responsibility for constructing the road if the U.S. Park Service fails to build it within a reasonable period of time." The Lloyd - McKay bid directs the Departments of Interior and Transportation, together with the Utah Stale Department of Highways, to conduct a one-year study of roads, in the Glen Canyon Area Ar-ea and to "locate the specific route of a scenic, low-speed road' from Glen Canyon City to Bullfrog. The bill requires that the road cross the Es-calnnte Es-calnnte River below the point where the river enters Lake Powell. The study must also include, in-clude, a "reasonable timetable timeta-ble for engineering, planning and construction of the road" and lite bill requires the Secretary Sec-retary of Interior to "adhere to the timetable in every way feasible to him." "However, if the Park Service Ser-vice fails to meet the timetable time-table due to lack of funds or any other reason, the Secretary Secre-tary is directed to contract with the state for consruc-ticn consruc-ticn of the road if the state so desires. The slate would be eligible for federal funds under various programs," Rep. McKay said. "Tin's language keeps ad of the options open in caso the Park Service defaults for any reason on construction of the road," Rep. Lloyd said. A firm agreement by the delegation and the Governor was reached on other provisions pro-visions of the bill whu-ii would: Create a permanent national na-tional recreation area of approximately ap-proximately 1,201,400 acres under the administration of tile National Park Service. The lower portion of the Es-calante Es-calante River, up to Harris Wash, would be included ir. the recreation area. Authorize 1 lie U.S. Bur-eau Bur-eau of Land Management to admjnister mineral and grazing graz-ing leases within the national nation-al recreation area. Authorize a two-year study stu-dy of areas within or. adjacent ad-jacent to the recreation area "which . are suitable for private pri-vate development of recreation recrea-tion homos, condominiums and commercial enterprises, and which the State of Utah mi;,ht select in exchange for State School sections preempted pre-empted by the Federal Government." Gov-ernment." Hearings on a Senate-passed bill and earlier bills introduced in-troduced by Reps. McKay and Lloyd were conducted by the Parks subcomm.tteo in Kanab and Washington. A proposal contained in the. Lloyd bill to create a "Canyon "Can-yon Country National Con. nervation Area" for public land surrounding the rocrea. tion area will be introduced as separate legislation. Reps. Lloyd and McKay said the bill introduced tcdav would serve as the basis for by the subcommittee. "We want to get a bill through Congress this year, and we hope that on the basis bas-is of this compromise by Utah officials v.e will be able ab-le to do so,"-the Congress, men said. |