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Show (Are farm regulations obsolete? I JElabeling them "unrea- i Jisjic, and obsolete," U.S. I Tenafor Jake Gam (R- ' I Utah) Friday called for I ' repeal of provisions in a 1 iSlfl? which could result in the break-up of i !flny American farms, j The Utah Republican X8roUticed that . he will-co-sponsdr a bill introduced intro-duced by Senator Barry M. Goldwater (R-Ariz.), which would remove all acreage- limitations and 'residency requirements ,rom the 1902 federal reclamation Law. The controversial regulations regu-lations limit to 160 acres vihe lze of farms that can qualify to receive water from federal reclamation projects, and establish stringent residency re- quire ments. Garn noted that the provisions were useful in the early 1900s in the developing arid lands. "However," he said, "agriculture has changed in the last 75 years, and the provisions ignore the growing size and mechanization mecha-nization of farms, as well as other inflationary costs of production." The proposed repeal, Garn said, would counter attempts by the Carter Administration to continue conti-nue farm-size limits and strengthen residency requirements re-quirements under the reclamation law. "If there is an acreage limitation, it will result in th break-up of many farms, higher production costs, and grossly inflated inflat-ed food prices for the consumer," Garn said. "The administration seems ignorant of the real needs of today's farmers, who don't need any more problems." The Utah senator said the idea of a federal limitation on the size of a farm "Is contrary to the American ethic and is just another form of bureaucratic control." |