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Show Utah Demo Delegation Enters Bill For New Nat'l Park Utah's Demrocratic delegation in. Washington. D. C, announced this week plans to introduce a bill to establish a Canyonlands National Park In a limited area of the spectacular red rock canyon can-yon country of Southeastern Utah, near Moab. The delegation proposing the bill includes Senator Frank E. Moss and Congressmen David S. King and M. Blaine Peterson. Tne bill, which is now being drafted, would embrace the area south and west of Dead Horse Point, and encompass Upheaval Dome, the Needles, Standing Rocks and the Island of the Sky. Dead Horse Point would remain-a remain-a state park. Plans for the new park were announced in a letter to S-cre-tary Stewart Udall. Letter also indicated that the delegation favored completion of the National Na-tional Park Service economic survey of Southeastern Utah adjacent ad-jacent to the park before any action is taken on the Canyon-lands Canyon-lands bill. If the park is authorized, it would be expected that the National Na-tional Park Service would construct con-struct roads into the areas in question from at least three directions. |