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Show Sen. Bennett Submits Amendment to Dixie Project Bill to Provide Water for Cedar City Sen. Wallace F. Bennett (R-U (R-U t a h today submitted an amendment to revise the language lan-guage of the Dixie Project Bill to protect further the interests of Cedar City. Sen. Bennett said the present bill, submitted by Sen Frank E. Moss (D-Utah) fails to provide adequately for Cedar City water supply. "The citizens of Cedar City j are entitled to this considera-' considera-' tion," Sen. Bennett said. I Sen. Bennett also has submitted submit-ted a Dixie Project Bill and t the two Bills are essentially the j same, except for the Cedar City ! provision In Sen. Bennett's Bill. "My proposed amendment calls attention to the already existing contractual arrangement under which the Cedar City, Utah, area would receive an average of approximately ap-proximately 8,000 acre feet of water annually, Sen. Bennett said. Sen. Bennett has submitted his Cedar City proposal as a new amendment to the Moss bill or as a revision of the Bennett Ben-nett Bill. He said his action today to-day will srengthen the language lan-guage of the Cedar City Amendment Amend-ment outlining the fact that Cedar Ce-dar City has a program of its own and it is now planned that Cedar City will become a part of the Dixie Project. It was offered at the request of the attorney for Cedar City, John S. Boyden. 'Therefore, I have revised the i language of my Cedar City amendment to read as follows: "The Dixie Project shall be coordinated with the Cedar City Water Development Program i which Includes the diversion of ; the waters of Crystal Creek into I the Kolob Reservoir, and after I completion of the Dixie Project the waters of Crystal Creek and of the natural watershed of the Kolob Reservoir shr'l be exported export-ed for use of Cedar City and vicinity vi-cinity in accordance with an agreement ag-reement entered Into by Cedar I City and Iron County on Aug, 26, 1953 with Kolob Reservoir and Storage Assn.. Inc.. and Washing. ton County in 1956, It was agreed j that Cedar City would construct works for the diversion of an average of approximately 8,000 acre-feet of water from tributaries tributar-ies of the Virgin River for mu-niciple mu-niciple use." "It should be noted that Cedar City Is to reimburse the project for power revenue losses resulting from this diversion. It would be equally satisfactory to me either to have S. 26, (the Moss Bill) amended to add this clause or to approve S. 655 (the Bennett Bill with the Revised Language)," Lan-guage)," he said. |