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Show Senate Buries Echo Park 'Til! next Year The U. S. Senate put off ac-. tion on Friday nig'ht, Aug. 20, at least until early next year when they reassemble in the 84th congressional session, on a bill to authorize the $1.5 billion bil-lion Colorado' River Storage Project.which included the controversial con-troversial Echo Park damsAte. Sen. Eugene D. Milliken (R. Colo.) main sponsor of the bill, agreed to drop it in the Senate's Sen-ate's adjournment rush after getting get-ting promises an attempt will be made to bring it up early in the next congressional session. Vast Undertaking The bill would authorize federal fed-eral construction of six big dams and 14 irrigation units in the Upper Colorado River Basin, which includes parts of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico. One of the dams, Echo Park on the Green River, has been opposed by conservationists conserva-tionists as an "invasion" of Dinosaur National' Monument. Millikin asked Republican Leader William F. Knowland (Continued on page 2) Echo Park .... (Continued from Page l) and Democratic Leader Lync-B. Lync-B. Johnson for assurances 'f-bill 'f-bill will get "an early decisic-' in the next Congress. Knowland said he will "cm-. erate" to see it is taken up early as that can be done." H-called H-called the bill "an import-piece import-piece of legislation" that shoi be given "full debate." 'Happy to Help' Johnson said he will happy to "co-operate" if he rt mains minority leader. He add;: he will be glad to work t.i the "minority leader" to b; it up if the party control i the' Senate shifts to the Der. crats. Sens. Arthur V. Watlos (E Utah), Edwin C. Johnson (D Colo), and Clinton P. Anders: (D. N. M.), also4 sponsors of ft; bill, agreed it would have to be dropped for the session. B;: Watkins said the people o! his state will be "terribly dis& pointed" at the continued "waste" of water that k il Je 'stored by the project. |