Show EIS provision Will help CUP passage House-Senate conferees on the Public Works Appropriations Dill last week adopted a Senate provision to bar requirement that a new basin-wide en- impact statement be prepared on the Colorado Gunn D- a member of the said the amendment would permit the Central Utah Project to go despite an environmentalist chal- lence The still must vote to adopt the McKay said It is a the idea will get through the but it is worth The proposal is subject to a House challenge because it is legislating on an appropriations contrary to House The proposed study has been estimated to cost million and would take three years to The Senate language the 1969 National En- Rejection of the plan by the House would send the ESSE fining in the current session of If the bill presumably a would allow water projects to go ahead at least year's which is for Utah than the bill provides The bill Is also subject to a probable veto by President and delay would make It harder for Congress to override the veto and still pass a bill Carter will Dan R- said he is lining up votes to override that if it Marriott has lobbied with 10 he who have agreed to vote with Mm on a louse bill originally by a comfortably more than the two-thirds needed to The Senate voted for the |