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Show HIS Sponsored 10 Senators Elope Expressed By Western Leaders For Early Passage A bill to authorize the V2 billion bil-lion dollar Upper Cororado River Storage Project was introduced in the Senate of the United States last Tuesday, Jan. 18. Ten senators from Utah, Wyoming, Wyo-ming, Colordao, Arizona and New Mexico joined in sponsoring legislation for a series of federal power dams and reclamation projects. pro-jects. Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-NM) (D-NM) presented the bill, which is virtually identical to the measure the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs voted out last by an 11-1 vote. Sen. Anderson, new chairman of the irrigation and reclamation subcommittee, said the group will hold hearings on the bill between mid-February and March 1. ECHO KEY PROJECT A key project in the program is Echo Park Dam. Joining Sen. Anderson as co-sponsors co-sponsors of the bill were Sens. Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah), Wallace F. Bennett (R-Utah), Frank A. Barrett (R-Wyo), Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-Wyo), Eugene D. Millikin (D-Colo), Gordon Allott (R-Colo), Carl Hayden (D-Ariz), Barry M. Goldwater (R-Ariz) and Dennis Chavez (D-Ariz). The bill introduced by these six Republicans and four Demo-crates Demo-crates provides for six storage dams and 12 irrigation projects in the five state area. Estimated cost of these projects is $1,300,-000,000. $1,300,-000,000. DAMS PROPOSED The storage dams are Glen Canyon, in Arizona on the Colorado Colo-rado River; Echo Park, on the Green River in . Colorado near the Utah Border; Flaming Gorge, on the Green River in Utah; Curecanti, on the Gunnison Gunni-son River in Colorado; Cross Mountain, on the Yampa River in Colorado and Navajo, on the Navajo River in New Mexico. Largest of the 12 participating or irrigation projects is the initial phase of the central Utah project which would cost an estimated $231,044,000. The other Utah projects pro-jects recommended are Emery Co. and Gooseberry |