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Show i i Upper Colorado Project Posses House Interior feiiiiff fee 20-6 Echo Park Dsm Receives Setback As All References Are Removed; Californian Says Echo Still In Bill Two more hurdles stand in the way of the Upper Colorado River Storage Project after the House Interior and Insular Affairs committee com-mittee Tuesday approved the bill. The bill now goes before the 12-man House Rules Committee and if it wins OK'y there, then to the complete House. The vote Tuesday was 20-6 in favor of the $760,000,000 project. Echo Park dam project received a setback when a move to delete this phase of the project went over by a 19-6 vote. An expected . move to also delete Flaming Gorge from the bill did not ma-teralize. ma-teralize. However, all hope of the Echo Dam is not lost, as Rep. Hosmer R.-Calif.) stated near the end of Tuesday's session, that "Echo Park is still in the bill as much as ever." As approved by the full committee, com-mittee, the House version includes authorization for three major storage stor-age dams Flaming Gorge, Glen Canyon and Navajo. Condititional approval for Curecanti Dam is also al-so included. ' Following are the six members of the committee who voted against the bill: Haley (D-Flt.), Pillon (R-N.Y.), Rogers (D-Tex.), Saylor (R-Pa.), Shuford ' (D-N.C), and Utt (R-Calif.). Those approving approv-ing the bill are: Aspinall (D-Colo.), Pfost (D-Ada.), Miller (R-Neb.), Pharton (R-N.Y.), Berry (D-MO.), Dawsin (R-Utah), Powell (D-N.Y.), Edmonson (D-Okla.), Metcalf (D-Mont), (D-Mont), Christopher (D-Mo.), Sisk (-Mich.), Rutherford (D-Texas), Westland (R-Wash.), Young (R-Nev.), (R-Nev.), Rhodes (R-Ariz.), Budge (R-Ida.), (R-Ida.), Chenoweth (R-Colo.) Rep. William A. Dawson (R-Utah), (R-Utah), mentioned a number of individuals in-dividuals and concerns who are in favor of the Upper Colorado project, as a whole, but. are. against the Echo Park phase of it. Dawson Daw-son stated that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant III, a noted engineer and president of the American Planning Plan-ning and Civic Assn., was one of these. Others opposing the Echo Park bill were J. W. Penfold, of Denver, representing the Izaak , Walton League, and Fred M. Packard Pack-ard of the National Parks Assn. Dawson also stated that even if Echo Park is definitely deleted, from the whole project, opposition opposi-tion for the entire bill will not cease. Dawson said that Southern California interest are still fighting fight-ing to defeat the whole bill. |