Show I 1 Cost Cos of Central Utah Projects Double Since Start The administration Is asking for a boost of nearly percent in appropriations allons for the Colorado River Storage Project more than half hail the new funds earmarked for the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project according to Rep Sherman Lloyd R Utah THE COST of completing the project has nearly doubled since the original appropriation of million was approved approved approved ap ap- proved in 1956 Lloyd said General inflation changes in plans and the construction cost indices and the fact that Congress did not authorize the full amount needed have increased the total required to finish all projections authorized by the original act Lloyd explained HE SAID the administration will ask Congress t to raise the ceiling on appropriations appropriations appropriations for the project million to toa a total of more than 13 billion l More tha than half haU of this would go to the Bonneville Unit which the Interior Department estimates will require million to complete About 64 million of the total million cost of the project has already been appropriated OTH OTHER E R UTAH units affected by the legislation include the Jensen Unit which requires 97 million to complete the Unit which needs million ion the Vernal Unit which requires 1 million mil mU- lion and the Emery County Project which needs 16 million A large share of this increase is earmarked for Utah because we had been behind the other states in completion completion comple tion of authorized projects Lloyd said OF THE million prill oJ under the Colorado River Store Stor- ag ago ag Act of 1659 was spent to con Glen Canyon Dam mil mil- million million lion for Flaming Gorge and million ion for power transmission facilities The rest was divided among smaller pro pro- |