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Show DIXIE PROJECT, UTAH MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1964 HOUSE OF KEPITOSENTATTVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON IRRIGATION AND RECLAMATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9: 45 a. m., room 1324, Longworth Building, Hon. Walter Rogers ( chairman) presiding. Mr. ROGERS. The Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation will come to order for further consideration of H. R. 3279 by Mr. Burton of Utah; H. R. 4178 by Mr. Lloyd of Utah, and S. 26, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Dixie project, Utah, and for other purposes. S. 26 passed the Senate on October 30,1963, and a field hearing was held at St. George, Utah, on October 2,1963. The bills referred to and the subject of the hearings by the subcommittee on H. R. 3279 by Mr. Burton of Utah with proper reference being made to the other measures will be made a part of the record. ( The bills follow with the reports:) [ H. R. 3279, 88th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and! maintain the Dixie project, Utah, and for other purposes Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for the purposes of developing the water resources of the Virgin and Santa Olara Rivers, including the furnishing of municipal and industrial water supplies, the making available to Cedar City, Utah, and vicinity eight thousand acre- feet of water annually from the Kolob Reservoir pursuant to an agreement entered into between such city and the constructing agencies of Kolob Dam and Reservoir, which provided that such city was to have all the water from Kolob Reservoir to export for use in the Cedar City area after completion of the Dixie project, the furnishing of an irrigation water supply to approximately twenty- one thousand acres of land, the control of floods, the generation and sale of electric energy, the conservation and development of fish and wildlife resources, and the enhancement of recreation opportunities, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the Dixie project, Utah. The project shall consist of the Virgin City Dam and Reservoir, tunnels, canals, siphons, pumping plants, and other works nesessary to serve irrigated and irrigable lands along and adjacent to the Virgin River; a dam on the Santa Clara River near Gunlock, Utah, and other works necessary to serve irrigated and irrigable lands along and adjacent to the Santa Clara River and on Ivins Beach; and hydroelectric plants and transmission facilities at the Virgin City Dam and at such other points as are desirable. SEC. 2. The project shall include such measures for the disposition of saline waters of La Verkin Springs as are necessary in the opinion of the Secretary to insure the delivery of water at downstream points along the Virgin River for water users in the States of Arizona and Nevada of suitable quality for 53 |
