Show Senator Bennett Urges Contract On CUP Project Senator Wallace F Bennett Utah ft-Utah said this week that the Bureau of Reclamation has asked its regional director in Salt Lake City to intensify ef forts to complete negotiations with the Central Utah Water Conservancy District to obtain a desired repayment contract The senator said the contract would be signed this year SENATOR Bennett had urged Floyd E Dominy Reclamation Commissioner to clear up the red tape and expedite plans for foran foran an early signing of the repay repay- repayment ment contract thus taking ano ano- ano another ther step toward completion of the vital Central utah Project Mr Dominy told Senator Ben Ben- Bennett nett that a draft contract has been furnished to the Utah Wa ter Conservancy District Board of Directors The Board now plans to appoint a negotiating committee to meet with Bureau representatives in later discuss discuss- discussions ions to iron out contract details MR DOMINY told Sen Ben Ben- Bennett nett that a number of items have contributed to the delay in furnishing a draft of a contract to the district We could have provided a partial draft earlier but we would have had to omit anum a num ber of salient articles Mr Dominy told the Senator We hope negotiations with the District will be satisfactorily ily completed by about April or orMay orMay May of this year and that the District will then approve the form Corm of the proposed repayment contract the Commissioner told Sena Senator tor Bennett There after about 30 to 60 days will be required for Secretarial al The Commissioner explained that after the Districts District's elec tion on the contract which will require additional time the con tract may be signed SENATOR Bennett said that after the signing the District must file for and obtain court confirmation of the contract Commissioner Dominy also told Senator Bennett Dennett that qualified fied Bureau of Reclamation em em- employees are expected to be avail avail- available able for transfer to the Bonne Bonne- Bonneville ville Unit as other work is corn com |