Show Federal regulations will stifle CUP UP water rights Ihns inns may need Central Project water wafer but Ill I'll tell if f these regulations are Ir r r forced there will be some curse it said Utah's Congressman mi m McKay referring to nosed Hoed Bureau of rules he testified it L in hearings Tuesday In alt Lake City Under tInder the proposed i to draw water from fromi i Bureau of Reclamation project one must dispose of lands in excess of acres and must lut live within fifty miles of o eu I. I farm McKay the off lead-off witness ul ut l the hearings reported the Bureau Burea says only eight owners in Utah will be affected by these regulations But what will h I peen when half the state staten n IJ m lulling lading Salt Lake Ogden and andt t o P draw water from the Bureaus Bureau's Central Utah Project 1 There here could be the same kind of mass 1115 land sell-off sell in Utah re o e facing in California ay IY said the problem I ell ed top Interior Depart- Depart it i and und Bureau of ii a nation mation officials to the Salt Salti i hearing including US U.S. U ui l of Reclamation Com Com- H Cr U. U Keith Higginson on r M el ell M. M Krulitz solicitor of V Interior Department and andI v I 1 01 tic al responsible for the posed po regulation Richard 1 luik hk deputy assistant i j i dry ary of the Interior and non S S. S Coope special frets officer in the Bureaus Bureau's i Ilon lOn of Water and Land Strange si range as it seems M. M Kay hay continued the Bureau h has IWi is not bothered to even guess d tI the tile impact this would have on established family farmers and others downstream from CUP facilities need Central Utah Project water but I guarantee there will be some who'll curse it if these regulations stick McKay continued that the proposals are more than a response to a federal court order They are clearly out of bounds and go beyond the intent of Congress in the 1902 legislation For instance he continued while allegedly promoting family ownership of farms the regulations go on to define family relationships in terms of direct lineal relationships Therefore a man and wife and two children could receive federal water for acres as a family unit But at the death of the parents the children would lack a direct lineal relationship and would have to break up the family farm to continue to receive federal water McKay enumerated other flaws In the regulations including Including including in In- sale of excess lands by lottery and misapplied leasing and residency requirements McKay who is sponsoring a abill abill abill bill in Congress to delay enforcement enforcement enforcement en en- of the limitation for forone forone forone one year said sid his moratorium on the regulations would allow time for a thorough examination |