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Show 15 19 The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, September 30, Sedamtion ' Cuts Push Bureau To Brink By Phil Cogswell Newhouse News Writer - WASHINGTON Federal for 70 irrigation projects years a multibillion dollar cornerstone of economic deapvelopment in the West pear to face a bleak future. The Bureau of Reclamation, which in its prime built such massive structures as the Hoover and Grand Coulee dams, has slipped in status in recent years, and some supporters fear it may be allowed to fade SALT away altogether. The agency took a severe budget cut this year and may experience further reducticns in the 1970 fiscal year budget now being prepared. WAU, XXXtH VALLfYPAM TP Congressmen from the 17 western states where the Bureau has irrigated more than eight million acres, held an unprecedented meeting with administration officials Sept. 12, to express their concern, but they received no assurances that reclamation pending would even remain at its present level. top 10 albums Choose your favorites from this selection albums which includes of Roberta Flack's newest, "Killing Me Softly." top-selli- ng Change Direction Even with the construction funds it does have, the Bureau of Reclamation is changing the thrust of its new projects, dealing more with municipal and industrial water supply whose users can problems pay a larger share of the cost and less with the irrigation projects traditionally the focal point of its attention. think we're at the crossroads, commented Rep. Harold T. Johnson, chairman of the House interior subcommittee on water and power resources and one of of the leading champions western irrigation projects. The controversy reflects in part the enduring effort of the West to obtain what it considers its due from the richer and more populous East Western Flight The West has never been given proper consideration,' Johnson said. "I think the western states are just as entitled to consideration as other parts of the country. He points to the large attendance at the Sept. 12 meetiwhich he arranged ng as evidence of the strong feelstill evokes ing irrigation among western congressmen and the people they represent. Despite the strong congressional feeling, however, the mounted have pressures against federal irrigation projects as well as other public COTTOMfOGO LAM favorite artists t C easy listening and country and western too itfl ft fi rimH reg. 4.97 W11 WW I j l' WV , S s I P4 o rrwftTftni 4-- I iC, tot ft- r. gifSC Q f r 41 large assortment includes those shown above and rmny more. Whatever your taste in music, you're bound to find many of your favorites here. 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There is a skepticism toward public works, one ofThese projects ficial said. arent popular any more. This attitude has hit both the Bureau of Reclamation and the much larger U.S. A' ,.iy Corps of Engineers, .which at once is reclamations chief ally and main competitor in the public works figll. But the corps has a national constituency, because its dam,af, dike and dredging projects givare, feci virtually base of ing it a much broader the than congressional support Bureau of I western-orienteReclamation. 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