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Show All Ufahns Should Help . . . WATER FOR UTAH IS BIG PROBLEM the necessity of long-range plans and a consistent rate of progress. The suport of Utah's citizens of the effort begun by Congressman Burton is vital. It is only equitable that Utah's inerests, as well as those of Arizona and Colorado, be dealt with in legislation now before Congress. Utah's future, as does that of any state, or area, depends largely upon the available water wat-er supply. If there is no provision pro-vision made for augmenting our basic source of supply, the Colorado River, the future will indeed be a bleak one. Even before we will require supplemental water from the outside, however, we will need to utilize all of our share of the Colorado. We do nto do this now, but the Central Utah Project, Pro-ject, a vast series of reclamation reclama-tion programs now under way, will, hopefully, enable us to funnel our share into needed areas. A big step in this direction was taken in the mid-1950s when the Colorado River Storage Stor-age Project was authorized by Congress. Since then, Utah and other Colorado River Basin states have been moving painstakingly pain-stakingly forward on individual units of their respective state projects. Utah's Vernal Unit has been completed, the Bonneville Unit is under way, and, now, a congressional con-gressional committee is considering consid-ering authorization of still another an-other phase, the $620 million Ute Indian Unit. Rep. Laurenre J. Burton, R-Utah, R-Utah, was successful in getting an amendment authorizing the unit tacked onto current Colorado Colo-rado River legislation being considered in the House. The amendment was added by the Irrigation and Reclamation subcommittee sub-committee of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. If the Interior Committee approves ap-proves the bill with the Burton amendment, i will go to the floor of the House for ultimate approval. The Burton amendment has opponents, and it will be a chore to keep it in the legislation legis-lation this session of Congress. But our congressional delegation, delega-tion, Governor Rampton and his forces, the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, and others concerned are now doing all within their power to help the amendment stay. They deserve the support of all Utah in their efforts. Some opponents of the a mendment say the cost of the Ute Indian Unit will "weigh down" the overall bill, thus making it likely that the entire en-tire legislation will face defeat. It should be made clear, however, how-ever, that the amendment in no way calls for an expenditure to be made at the present time. It merely calls for a provisional provision-al authorization for the construction con-struction of the Ute Indian Unit Un-it and this would even be subject sub-ject to findings of a feasibility report by the Secretary of the Interior. With the waters of the Colorado Colo-rado River being used or committed com-mitted to use by authorized projects, pro-jects, it is only fair that at this time Utah's future plans at least be endorsed by the Congress. Con-gress. The Ute Indian Unit will be needed by Utahns by the turn of the century. It will be needed by the Ute Indian Tribe in eastern Utah. In fact, the Indians In-dians rightfully have the water coming, since hey have waived a share of their water rights in favor of the federal government. govern-ment. The sustained growth of the state and the development of its abundant resources dictate |