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Show U. S. Senile iHeceive Upper Colorado On WedEiesdoy California Senator Opposes Bill With 16-Page Minority Report; Oregonian Would Delete Echo Park j. The United States Senate Wednesday Wed-nesday received the billion dollar Upper Colorado River Storage Project bill as Chairman Clinton P. Anderson (D-N.M.) of the Irrigation Ir-rigation and Reclamation sub-committee introduced the bill. He expressed ex-pressed hope the floor debate on the four-state program could open within the next ten days. Simultaneously a 16-page minority min-ority report in opposition to the Upper Colorado River program was filed by Sen. Thomas R. Kuch-el Kuch-el (R-Calif.) and Sen. Richard Neuberger (D-Ore.) filed a report in opposition to the Echo Park Dam. Failed Last Year Last year the Upper Colorado River legislation didn't reach the Senate floor until July 26. As a. result the bill was caught in a legisfative log-jam of the closing days of the session and failed to pass. It is now more than three months ahead of last year's schedule sched-ule which should improve chances of passage. The bill calls for authorization of six storage dams and 12 participating par-ticipating 'or irrigation projects. It includes 21 other projects which require further planning work and must be re-authorized by a later Congress. Recognizes Intention "The bill," said Sen. Anderson, "recognized that it is not the intention in-tention of Congress, by authorizing author-izing only certain projects at this time, to limit, restrict or interfere with future comprehensive developments devel-opments involving the consumptive consump-tive use of waters in the Upper Colorado River Basin." The bill lays the foundation for the full Upper Basin development, leaving further action on some of the projects to later sessions of Congress, Senator Anderson explained. |
