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Show Water projects (Continued from Page li ting all of the basin states, included $4 2 million for water quality improvements studies and $5.1 million for a wind-hydroelectric wind-hydroelectric energy project study. Overall, the budget for the former Bureau of Reclamation, now the Water and Power Resources Service, jumped $169 million, to $815 million. The increase in-crease was the largest in the entire Department of Interior, which saw its overall budget climb $151 million to $6 3 billion in fiscal year r.181, which begins next Oct. 1. . . The National Park Service received $542 million in the new budget, up $2.2 million. The only construction item in Utah for the Park Service was $2 9 million for the Dangling Hope area of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The money would build a visitors' center and support facilities. The Bureau of Land Management budget was boosted $115 million, second largest in the department, to $:.I7.5 million, making it the largest single agency in Interior. Of the total, $111 million represent payments in lieu of taxes to local governments in areas where there are substantial federal lands. The largest increases in the HLM operating budget were $17.6 million for range land management, and $6.1 million for coal lousing. |