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Show Senator Leavitt introduces legislation to investigate Environmentalists group Business Classroom Building, Life Science Building addition, and Old Administration Building at S.U.S.C., and $447,000 for work on the A. R. & I. Gymnasium Building and utilities at Dixie College. Also introduced in the Budget Session last week was a joint resolution by Senator Leavitt congratulating the symphony band of Southern Utah State College for its invitation to present a formal concert in March at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and selection as one of five national bands from across the nation to perform per-form at the Music Education National Convention Bicentennial Bicen-tennial in March at Atlantic City, New Jersey This week is the final week of work for the 1976 Budget Session. the environmentalist groups be released to tha press. A companion piece of legislation introduced by Senator Leavitt calls upon the President of the United States, Congress, and the Department of Interior to take all actions necessary to expedite the approval and im- ' plementation of the long-delayed jKaiparowits project. ! In other action last week, the Utah Senate passed a $14 million income tax cut, which if passed by the House of Representatives would reduce the state income tax rates to the level prior to the 1975 increase. A joint resolution was introduced in-troduced last week at the Legislative Budget Session in Salt Lake City calling for disclosure of financial and membership information about the environmental goups which are hindering the Kaiparowits project. Sponsored by State Senator Dixie Leavitt (R-Cedar City), the resolution directs the Secretary of State Senator to collect information in-formation about the different group's officers, sources of funds, percentages of Utah citizens in their membership ranks, and the extent of their lobbying activities. "The people and sources of funds of the corporations proposing to develop minerals in the state are generally well-known," well-known," said Senator Leavitt. "But many of the organizations purporting to influence en-.( vironmental policies and legislation are represented by outsiders whose identities are either obscure or totally unknown." If passed, Senate Joint Resolution No. 8 specifies that such information gathered about Senator Leavitt, the chief sponsor of the bill, favors an income tax cut over a sales tax reduction because "it affects individual families, whereas some forty percent of the sales tax is paid by corporations and out-of-state visitors." Meanwhile, in meetings of the Joint Higher Education Ap-porpriations Ap-porpriations Sub-Committee, tentative budget increases of $1,933,000 and $3,753,000 were approved for Dixie and Southern Utah State colleges. Senator Leavitt, a member of the committee, said that the tentative approvals brought the budget more in line with the recommendations of the State Board of Regents rather than the samller amount approved in the Governor's budget. He said this would allow continued improvement im-provement in programs for the two colleges. The Higher Education Sub-Committee Sub-Committee also approved supplemental sup-plemental appropriations for construction and improvement of buildings at Dixie and S.U.S.C., Leavitt added. Included in the , funding are $1,750,000 for the |