| Show 2 more colorado bills introduced T two WO more upper colorado river storage projects were introduced trod ed I 1 in n the house wednesday this time by rep wayne N Asp aspinal laal colorado two other bills were sponsored by P rep tep william A dawson butah RU I futa tah and re rep 0 antonio BE Fiman fernanda delz D NM aspinall will bead head the house irrigation and reclamation subcommittee which places a great er importance on his bills one which was sponsored at the request of the upper colorado river commission and provides for six storage ge and 32 irrigation projects this Is 20 more irrigation projects than were proposed in the dawson and fernandez bills the other bill bul ot mr aspinall provider provides for only four large i projects but 13 participating or gation echo park dam Is included in all four f our bill bills othera others included are the glen glew canyon flaming arf 1 3 gorge and Cure canti the daw son and fernandez mandez Fe billj bills include these four and the cross mountain dam in colorado and the navajo project in new mexico the aspinall bill includes the central utah and emery county participating projects in utah but de deletes I 1 e te s the a goosberry saem project included in the other bills mr Aspi nalls own bill also introduces a new formula for the repayment for construction costs for irrigation and power facilities it provides that irrigation construction costs shall be repayable without interests in equal annual installments within a SO year period furthermore Zil construction comfor costs for power facilities ittes shall bo be repayable with interest with ind in t period of years not exceed ing in the th e expected economic life athe of the project but not to exceed emm ed lloyw efam ata ff w a this formula brin brings gs irrigation procedures within presently established policy and power repayment procedures within recognized and and accepted business policy said rep nep Aspin aspinall vii the measures also contain what rep aspinall described as a guarantee to each state of a construction padg program of participating upstream reservoirs that would make possible the beneficial consumptive us use e within its borders of the water to which it Is entitled this provision he said takes care of in a general generd app approach ach the program recently post postpone postponed pon b by G gov v edwin C Fol johnson of colorado 0 that Is incorporated corp orated rated in cOT leg legislation lation proffered by the upper colorado river wherein they ask for the inclusion sion in current legislation of additional participating projects |
