Show I t r i tt I R tl w wI t 4 A 7 1 S 'S k 1 ti o 1 t i r r L Z j ji i is k l r I i t t f j r 1 l lJ J a t t j 0 t j f 1 f fo j o JAYCEE CONVENTION Chairman Jimmy Workman n left Vernal Jaycee President Doyle Huber and Vernal nI I Chamber Secretary Manager Chesley Schart prepare to welcome an expected Utah ar or- or Awaits Passage by House Uintah h Unit Strengthened By B BR Feasibility R Report port WASHINGTON The Inter Inter- Interior Department through the Bureau of Reclamation has fil- fil filed l i ed the long awaited feasibility report on the million Uin Uin- Uintah tah Unit of the Central Central Utah Project Sen Walla Wallace e F Ben Ben- nett Utah announced ed this week The report was submitted to Congress on the eve of consid hi in the House of of the Central Ari- Ari Arizona Arizona zona Project which h includes the Uintah The feasibility report which shows the project to be ec ec- ec economically justified certain certain- certainly ly enhances its chances of en en- enactment when the House con con- considers siders the Lower Colorado Riv Riv- Riv River er project beginning Wed Wed- Wednesday Sen Bennett said Utah's Laurence J Burton was successful in getting the Uintah Unit attached as an amendment to the Lower Colo Colorado rado bill when the proposal was before the committee Now that the full bill is going before the house and the fact that the Interior Department has in effect approved the Uin- Uin Uintah Uintah tah Unit we are reason reason- reasonably reasonably ably sure that it will remain on the bill Sen Bennett said Com Bureau of Reclamation Com missioner Floyd E Dominy said that the report has been prepared for review purposes and is subject to revision how how- however however ever Sen Bennett comment comment- commented ed that that although I do not think there is any real danger that an attempt will be made to knock out this im Im- Im Important Utah Unit I am sure that filing of the feasibility re- re report report port will make Congressman Burtons Burton's passage in the House that much easier The Uintah Unit will serve Uintah and Duchesne Counties in northeastern Utah It is lo- lo located located in the Uintah Basin which i is part of the Upper Colorado i River Basin The Uintah Unit would pro pro- provide provide vide irrigation for Indian and nd I rive beginning today Thursday for the 1968 state convention This is the second time has I hosted the wide state Jaycee the gathering first was 1 In 1963 Staff photo non Indian lands municipal and industrial water supplies in inthe inthe the vicinity of Roosevelt reo re- recreation creation and fish and wildlife conservation Sen Bennett said Benefits also will be real real- realized realized from flood control and from area redevelopment More than 70 per cent of the irrigation irrigation tion water supply provided by bythe bythe the project would be used on Indian lands Storage regulation would be provided in two major reser reser- reservoirs the foot acre Uin- Uin Uintah Uintah tah Reservoir on the Uinta River on the Uintah and Our Our- Ouray Ouray ay Indian Reservation and the foot acre Whiterocks Re- Re Reservoir Reservoir on the Whiterocks Riv- Riv River River er in the Ashley National For For- Forest Forest est The page 53 feasibility re- re report report port stated the project would be economically justified The ratio of total annual benefits to average annual equivalent costs over year period of an- an analysis analysis at per cent interest is estimated at 14 to 1 |