Show Reclamation Study in Utah Passed House An important step forward for a number of utah reclamation tion projects was taken with the passage passage of a bill authorizing feasibility studies of water reo re sources projects Monday Re Re- Representative Laurence J Bur ton said Rep Burton was responsible for having many of the utah projects included in legislation before the House Interior and Insular Affairs committee THE UTAH congressman said that the bill which was passed without a negative vote in the House of Representatives Mon Mon- Monday day authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make care care- careful careful ful studies of the projects so they can be readied for author authorIzation by Congress later The Bill provides for the fol fol- following lowing actions 1 Additional analysis and stu stu- studies dies on the lower Colorado rs- rs basin yer basin project in Utah and neighboring states 2 Completion of first phase analysis and studies on the Bear river project on the Bear Riv Riv- River River er and its tributaries in utah and Idaho 3 Continuation of feasibility studies on the second phase of the Bear River project and the ultimate phase of the Central utah project Uintah unit on the Whiterocks and Uinta rivens riv riv- rivers ers ens 4 Beginning of feasibility stu- stu studies studies dies on the Ute Indian unit and developing the waters tributary to the Colorado river in north north- northeastern eastern and north central Utah now June 30 1967 5 Beginning feasibility stu stu- studies dies oil od the following proposals all scheduled for initiation after June 30 1967 Peaking the pow pow- power er capacity of the Colorado ri- ri river ri ver basin in Utah Arizona and Colorado the eastern part of the Bonneville basin in Utah the Grand county development the Gray canyon project on the I Green Riv River r the Price river I development the San Juan county development and the ul ul- ul ultimate phase of the ute Indian unit of the Central Utah project |