Show nearly tp 02 2 million seen earmarked for small county reclamation A special bureau of reclamation planning staff is busy preparing an elaborate small irrigation project program tor for the west which includes the expenditure pend iture of in aln uintah county and in duchesne county amounts scheduled for potential dams and other irrigation works in uintah county include bottle hollow boan ranch bullocks draw and whiterocks lake listed in duchesne county are minnie maude red creole creek and chapeta lake unlike reclamation programs of the past these small projects will not require individual approval by congress furthermore they will be developed and planned by local interests instead of by jhb bureau of 0 reclamation the bureau will act only ina in a consulting rapacity I 1 the federal government wilt will loan money for project recommended by rover governors nors and ind held to be fea feasible siLle by the secretary of the interior although the program Is on the statute books as public law it wont become operative until next year the delay la Is due to the fact that the president wants congress to make some revisions in the tile section providing tor for veto power over projects by the senate and house interior commit tees the new law defines a small mall project as one which does not cost more than 45 million it requires local interests to continued on page 8 nearly 2 million Milli continued from page 1 finance a portion of the cost up to fi I 1 minimum of 25 percent of I 1 the reimbursable cost interest free loans are available for the irrigation phase of these pro elects K als on the part of the loans fur for municipal and industrial water supplies the government will get 3 percent interest bureau of reclamation officials said that the bureau is preparing to accept and examine applications and at present working with potential applicants to perfect their reports bureau officials said that although no funds are this year that it will take time for applicants to 10 prepare plans and reports and to them to the states of their river basin for review the number of inquiries received by the bureau indicates that there will bo be a great deal of activity in this field in the next lew few years officials said |