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Show Nat'l Park Service Reviews Mission 66 Financing National Park Service, In reviewing re-viewing the funds expended on I the Mission 66 program for development de-velopment and Improvement of facilities, reveals than $247,500 I has been expended In the three year period the program has been In operation at Cedar Breaks National Monument. Expenditures at Bryee Canyon National Park for the same period per-iod of time has been $1,139,775 an Zion National Park has re-reived re-reived an allocation of $967,110. Total expenditures for the I three national park laciiiiiea la $2,354,385. Information was forwarded for-warded from Senator Wallace F. Bennett's office In Washington, Washing-ton, D. C. The Mission 66 .program has been revised three times and Is currently undergoing another revision. re-vision. Utah parks have had a high priority during the first three yevs of the program. For the three-year period ending end-ing June, 1959, $205,285 will have been spent at Bryee Canyon for the construction of roads and trails and $934490 for utilities and buildings. Last year $259,-880 $259,-880 was spent at Bryee for a visitor vis-itor center, comfort stations and accompanying buildings. In addition to an allotment of $111,600 for buildings and utilities utili-ties at Cedar Breaks through 1959, the Parks Service has spent $135,900 during the three-year period for Improvements of the rim drive, reconstruction and sur-facing sur-facing of Route 1, and for var- lous minor roads and trails. |