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Show Park, hoping thereby to kill the entire measure. Central Utah The bill as it now stands includes Central Utah Project which will bring the Wasatch Front in Utah, the additional addi-tional water it needs for growth and development. It also Includes the Emery Project in Utah along with Glen Canyon Dam just over the Utah border in Arizona and Flaming Gorge Dam in Northeastern North-eastern Utah. A provision is included in-cluded ordering an independent engineering study of Echo Park Dam with a deadline date for reporting re-porting of December 1958. Amendments Blocked To date we have been successful by very narrow margins in blocking crippling amendments to the bill. Our opponents have taken two different tactics in an effort to . defeat the project. Our method adopted by them is to support any measure that will "load" the bill. They are trying to make the entire measure so unworkable and costly that it will either be defeated in the House or the president will have to veto it. CONGRESSMAN DAWSONREPORTS Showdown Time This week has been the busiest I have ever spent in Congress. As a member of the House Sub-committee on irrigation and reclamation, I have spent each day participating participat-ing in executive sessions as we draft a bill to authorize the Upper Up-per Colorado River Project. As was the case last session of Congress, Cong-ress, the measure is running into heavy opposition from committee members from the East and, of course, from Southern California. Echo Park As was feared, supporters of the project were faced with a difficult choice. We could either keep Echo Park dam in the bill and lose the entire project, or we could delete it and face a fighting chance of getting the measure approved on the floor of the House. Opponents of the project did a complete turnabout turn-about and voted to keep Echo |