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Show Garn approves Carter budgof for GUP funds President, however, seems to be moving in the right direction, and to the extent he resists pressure from Big Spenders to bust the budget, I will support him." U.S. Senator Jake Garn (R-Utah) said he is "reasonably "reason-ably pleased" with President Presi-dent Carter's $51.2 million mil-lion fiscal 1980 budget request re-quest for the Central Utah Project, adding that he will "continue to pressure the Administration for construction con-struction funds for the Uintah and Upalco units. "The President's figures are obviously not all I would like, considering the extreme ex-treme importance of CUP to the future growth and development de-velopment of Utah," noted Utah's senior senator. "But in view, of President Carter's Car-ter's cost cutting attempts, CUP fared about as well as could be expected." Garn, who is a new mem -ber of the Senate Appropriations Appropri-ations Committee, voiced optimism that CUP "is no longer on the President's hit list after two years of bitter struggles." One principal concern in the coming year, Garn said, "will be to move the Uintah and Upalco units beyond the planning stage into full construction." con-struction." "I understand that one reason for the absence of construction funds for the Uintah project was concern over the results of core -sampling tests which raised questions about a proposed dam site," he said. "I'm hopeful that the siting problem prob-lem can be dealt with expeditiously ex-peditiously so construction funds can be appropriated." The Upalco unit, Garn said, "should get the final go-ahead in the near future, and I intend to use my influence in-fluence to achieve that end." Commenting on the President's Presi-dent's recommended $502 billion budget, Garn rejected the President's claims that it is "austere." "A $29 billion budget deficit defi-cit in the nation's fourth year of economic recovery is uncalled for and inflationary," in-flationary," he said. The |