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Show interior Aids To Tour Damsite The Uintah Basin will be visited vis-ited by three key officials of the Department of the Interior sometime later this month, where they will look over the proposed Echo Park damsite. Their arrival should follow in 'a couple of weeks after the delegation del-egation from the United States Congress who toured the area Sept. 15. They are Undersecretary Ralph A. Tudor, Reclamation Commissioner Wilbur A. Dex-heimer Dex-heimer and Conrad L. Wirth, director of the National Park Service. Mr. Tudor confirmed the trip to Utah recently to the Salt Lake papers, that he was going 1 to Utah but withheld the arrival and departure dates of his party, par-ty, explaining that they didn't want a pre-arranged tour. He described the trip only as an inspection of the proposed Upper Colorado storage project. From other sources it was learned that a boat trip down the Green and Yampa Rivers was under consideration and also that the party would visit Dinosaur National Monument. It was recalled that an inspection in-spection trip by department officials, of-ficials, to get acquainted with the various features of the Upper Colorado program was I proposed by Sen. Arthur V. : Watkins (R., Utah) when he conferred with Mr. Tudor last i month on the department's new power policy. Following the conference Sen. Watkins said: "Utah and westerners west-erners generally can be happy to know that the new policy includes approval of multiple purpose projects such as the Upper Colorado and particapat-ing particapat-ing projects, if and when they can be shown to be feasible from the standpoint of engineering engi-neering and economics. "And that project will be viewed as a whole and ,will not have to be approved piecemeal without each particular unit having to be justified as to economics eco-nomics without relation to the whole project." |