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Show Mission 66 Program Outlines Expenditure Budget Announcement was made In Washington, D. C. during the week that the proprosed new appropriation ap-propriation bill for National Park Service, had been out.'ined, which If approved, would provide $16,-345,000 $16,-345,000 for improvements of parks and monuments in Utah. The announcement an-nouncement was made through Senator Wallace F. Bennett (It-Utah) (It-Utah) who had been in contact with National Tyk Director Conrad Con-rad I. Wlrth. Although more than one-fourth of the amount is earmarked for expenditure at Dinosaur National Nation-al Monument, Director Wlrth pointed out that the development at this monument will not be accomplished ac-complished at the expense of other areas of the state. The park service's so-called Mission C6 program calls for the expenditure of $3,411,000 for Zion National Park and Monument. This includes S2.251.000 for roads and tral's and $1,1C0,000 for buildings and utilities. A long needed road into the monument and a new visitors center at Zion are regarded as high priory projects. pro-jects. The proposed program for Bryce National Park calls for $1,131.-000 $1,131.-000 for roads and trails and $744,-000 $744,-000 for buildings and utilities. Also included In the proposed expenditures Is a total of $1,354,-000 $1,354,-000 for developments at the Cedar Ce-dar Breaks National Monument. Considerable concern had been expressed In recent months about the Park Service's apparent lack of planning for Cedar Breaks. ! Proposed federal outlay for oth-er oth-er Utah National Monuments Includes: In-cludes: Arches, $2,409,000; Capitol Cap-itol Reef. $1,651,000: Natural Bridges, $375,000; Timpanogos. $233,000; Rainbow Bridge. $171,-000, $171,-000, and Hovenweep, $S4,000. Director Wlrth emphasized, however, that these were tentative tenta-tive proposals and still subject to "change or refinement." |