Show Congress gears up to override expected wafer bill veto H by to the Vernal Washington-Members of mainly from the are gearing up to attempt to override the President's anticipated veto of the billion public works appropriations bill for The 1979 fiscal year started and the President Is currently expected to veto the public works funding bill not later than Chairman Tom of the House Public Works Appropriations Subcommittee held a meeting over the weekend at which members par- Interested in the public works funding bill took their Those at the meeting were Democratic Majority Leader Jim and Ray Colorado Representatives Frank E. James P. Johnson and Timothy E. California Representatives Harold T. B. F. Don Clausen and Clair W. House Republican Leader John Gunn John T. and Wesley W. agreed to do the whip Evans agreed to contact the delegations from Pennsylvania and Wirth agreed to contact members how came to Congress with him In 1975 and others agreed to take other if the President vetoes the there was talk of compromise this past weekend during various meetings with the press and Congressional aides-the major battle is expected to be in the where he bill passed in final with a vote of on The same bill passed the Senate by a e opponents the biU could not 10 additional votes In 20 votes in the Senate-providing everyone here to Haskell tn f new starts for Colorado-the Animas- Closed Basin ProJect-and two new ew S t rt nf nf ihl Water i in Utah at Colorado River Basin members of are Rearing up jor battle to save the Cannon amend- ment which has been agreed to by the House Interior Appropriations con- committee ac- cording to Evans one of the conferees A meeting will be held by Rhodes early this week to plan strategy Those ex- to be at the meeting Include Evans Johnson and William L McKay and Dan Marriott- R- and Jim w c n-Neva sue- ment 1979 funding bill by floor amend- ment in the Senate on 8 an amendment which stipulates that if the Interior Department conducts a Basin- wide environmental impact statement EIS on the Colorado River it would not affect going work on all projects on which individual have already been Evans said week he ex- there would be bloody fight over the when the provision is considered in conference report on the Interior funding by the Most the the House Committee has challenged the Cannon claiming it is a method of to put out a letter to their colleagues in the House this next Committee Commerce on The Senate is expected to act on similar legislation shortly There are major differences over funding between the two The House version would provide for a split bet- the feds and the with the feds picking up 90 percent and the states 10 The Senate version provides for John D. and Clarence J. who pushed hard for committee approval of the bill on made it plain that they would not aree to the percent federal financing provision in the Senate includes three more sites for clean-up than the House bill-one more Colorado and two more in New conference energy tax bi now ln conference Herman D- Ga got suc a when it passed the w ho is a member of the Senate Finance is opposed to the tax credit is for a specific specific length of The whole matter is academic at this I doubt there will be an energy tax enacted by so at this time is the by astronaut- John Q D Ped the Senate Government Affairs Committee Hart said Glenn and his staff had continually brought up the is there really a need this That has bothered us and has delayed full committee the Government Affairs Hart The Hart bin was reported out of the Senate Environment and Works committee and Hart's staff is burned up that it took the second Glenn staled at the mark-up the maJor difference between his amend- ments to the bill and the Hart bill is that Glenn would make most of the aid to and counties Impacted by energy developments in the forms of and Hart's bill mainly a grant Glenn's bill substantially cuts down on the role of the governors in directing such an aid while Hart's bill em- the role of the Hart Plans to come ln with a new xi ear- |