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Show Hearings on Dixie Project Expected Soon Senator Frank E. Moss (D-Utah) (D-Utah) has been assured by leaders lead-ers of the House Interior Committee Com-mittee that the Dixie Project will be taken up by the House Interior Inter-ior subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation soon, the Senator's Sen-ator's office disclosed last Friday. Fri-day. Voss conferred again this week with Representative Wayne As-plnall As-plnall (D Colo.) Chairman of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, and with Representative Rep-resentative Walter Rogers ID-Texas), ID-Texas), Chairman of the Subcommittee. Sub-committee. The bill to authorize the $45 million reclamation project in Utah's Dixie the southwestern corner of the State passed the Senate in October without opposition. oppo-sition. The Dixie Project would develop devel-op the waters of the Virgin River and Cottonwood Creek. The two streams are tributary to the lower low-er Colorado River. |