Show house committee votes on P project act march 22 99 members af the house arriga lion subcommittee will vote on oil authorization of the upper clo C ilo tado river storage on it march 22 according t ti chair man william 11 II isciA R wyo the decision to vote on that date was made at the conclusion of three days of executive ses sion by the subcommittee on oil the tile hill carrying the authorship of rep william A dawson R utah in a conversation hv telephone holle with sen sell 11 11 string biam 11 ani Wed wednesday nesda rep TIL p dawson stated that the project vas kas running into constant opposition 0 and ampha that t he the letter writing campaign begun here in vernal was extremely important the letters will be mo more re helpful than anything else in ill swaying the eastern congress men he said jeff will in a letter to the vernal chamber of commerce said the senate hearings on the project are still indefinite A meeting of the upper basin commission will be held in washington on march 15 but only vice president john erickson new mexico is expected to attend he ile will adjourn the meeting until the senate hearings begin according to mr will who is executive secretary of the commission echo park dam and other utah phases of the program have been discussed at length during the hearing the subcommittee discussed the proposed 10 million utah emery county con project at wednesdays meeting but did not get around to the proposed millir ri central utah tah irrigation program rep dawson praised the ex cellena presentation made during the past post three days by E 0 larson director of the salt lake city regional office of the bureau of reclamation and C B jacobson project engineer for the upper colorado program the two men were recalled to clarify facts and figures on the arv project act commenting enting on the continued opposition from rep john A saylor R pa and a few other continued on page 8 HOUSE COMMITTEE VOTES continued from page 1 hep rep dawson said sold the opponents have continued to argue that the tire cost on the land tor for the reclamation was too great tor for the benefits received 1 I have insisted that the themselves are paying for these projects and that as long as the government gets its money back it make maker no difference whether the revenue from power Is paying most of the cost such a manner mariner explained mr dawson Is the only way utah can utilize its resources he fie further pointed out that such contributing projects as central utah and emery county met feasibility standards and would be april paid off in bilty years rep dawson said tuesday that he still felt they would get got the bill approved by the subcommittee but conceded it was going to be a rough f tight ight |