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Show DIXIE PROJECT, UTAH 87 this project become either economically unjustified or become financially inf easible. That is the gist of the H. R. 9032 provision. Mr. HALEY. Mr. Secretary, where is the municipal water coming from now and what is the cost of it? Do you know? Mr. HOLUM. I think I will have to ask the Eeclamation people to answer that question, either now or when they appear in a few minutes. Where does the water supply come from now? Mr. PELHAM. They get it mostly from springs. I haven't got the figures, but they get it mostly from springs, back in the mountains. Mr. HALEY. Where is the power coming from now ? Mr. HOLUM. The city of St. George, as I understand it, generates its own electricity from diesel plants, and it may be that they buy a little power from companies in the area. I am not sure but I am confident that people from St. George can supplement that answer. St. George has a municipal utility. Mr. HALEY. Mr. Chairman, when the representatives of St. George are before the committee, I would like to have an answer to that question. Mr. ROGERS. If the gentleman will yield, some of the officials are sitting in the audience and I am sure they can testify to that point. Mr. HALEY. NOW, Mr. Secretary, when you prepared, or when your Department prepared your report to this committee, on June 19, did you have the benefit of the letter of June 18,1964, from the Governor of the State of Utah before you ? Mr. HOLUM. The willingness of the State of Utah to assume this responsibility for highway relocation was taken into account in the report. Mr. HALEY. It made a pretty quick trip to Washington. One document is June 14 and the other is June 18. In the meeting of the Utah State Highway Commission of March 6, 1964, a motion was made by Commissioner Smirl, seconded by Commissioner Bagley, and unanimously passed, and I will read it and I will ask Mr. Burton if this is the document he submitted for the record. It is as follows: That we reaffirm our position as before, that we will proceed with reconstruction of Highway U- 15 to an alinement which will clear the proposed reservoir site, as a Federal- aid highway project, so that it will not interfere with the cost of the reclamation project, providing other avenues of obtaining Federal funds are not available. May I ask the gentleman if that is the document he is relying on to obtain assistance- is that the document that you are relying on, insofar as the highway department is concerned, for the construction of this road ? Mr. BURTON. Will the gentleman yield to me ? Mr. HALEY. Yes. Mr. BURTON. That is the motion I have and wanted inserted in the record following the Governor's letter. Mr. HALEY. I do not think this resolution says anything other than if you can get some Federal aid for the project, they will build it. I do not see where this is a binding obligation on the part of the State highway department. Now, the Governor, of course, goes a little further in his letter, but after all, Governors come and go. I do not see in this resolution, Mr. |