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Show Funds Allocated For Program flt Cedar Breaks A breakdown of anticipated expenditure under the "Mission "66" plan for Improvements to national na-tional parks and monuments, fur. nished us by Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, reveals a contemplated expenditure on Cedar Breaks Na. tional Monument from now until 1966 of $1,511,000. The funds mu3t be approved by Congress from, year to year, which may result In some changes, but tentative ten-tative amounts have been set up for the over-all Improvement program. pro-gram. The major portion of the expenditure ex-penditure will be for road construction, con-struction, with $1,120,000 set up for this purpose. The rim drive In the monument .will be the first on which funds 'will be expended, with $50,000 to become available In 1953. $55,200 in 1959 and $51,000 in 1960. for a total expenditure of $156,200. Funds will become available for minor roads and trails In 1959, with $23,900 for the first year, and $44,000 available In 1960, for a total of $67,900. The largest expenditure set up in the program Is for a by-pass and entrance road. A total of $715,900 has ben designated for this project wih $467,500 to be made available in 1963, and $248,400 in 1964. The final expenditure ex-penditure under the road bul.d-ing bul.d-ing program will be a total of $180,000 to be made available in 1966, for a road designated as "Route Two Approach Spur." The Mission 66 program also carries $391,000 for buildings and facilities with the first money for this purpose to become available avail-able In 1959. A total of $200,000 Is designated for expenditure in that year. In 1965 an additional $191,000 should be available for various buildings outlined by the National Park Service as needed at the national monument. |
