Show Bennett files protest to Indian Sen Wallace F. Bennett today filed a protest with i the Bureau of Indian Affairs asking it to quit the construction The Utah Republican has been informed that the Bureau has been engaged In se veral instances of activities in the construction the construction industry refers to the practice of government agencies hiring permanent employees and doing their own construction work without putting the business out to be bid by the construction Sen Bennett said have been informed by the Utah Chapter of Associated General Contractors of America that several cases of this have occurred in Bennett The Utah lawmaker pointed out that at the Ouray Indian Reservation in eastern Utah the Bureau of Indian Affairs built a three-span bridge 90 feet This year the Bureau plans to build another three-span Bennett cited several other projects either constructed by the Bureau or which are in the planning These included a bridge over a canal on the upper Whiterocks River and some construction work on a budge crossing the Green addition I understand that the Bureau of Indian through its office in New has purchased several hundred thousands of dollars in equipment and is performing almost all of the road and other construction work on the Navajo Indian lie Sen Bennett said the construction work can be done at considerably lower prices by private strongly believe that it is inappropriate for the Federal Government to get into the construction and thereby compete with private enterprise upon which the Government is dependent for its tax Bennett wrote the Commissioner of the Philleo o |