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Show 96 DIXIE PROJECT, UTAH a liberal estimate of the cost that even if we determine to retire the lands now being irrigated by that water lower down we could do it for less than $ 2 million. Mr. ROGERS. HOW many acres are involved ? Mr. DOMINY. About 3,200 acres of land. Mr. ROGERS. What is the salt content out of this water out of the springs ? Mr. WEST. Approximately 9,600 parts per million. Mr. DOMINY. This is very saline spring, as you can see. It depends on what portion of the water is made up of the flow from this spring as to how tough the problem is farther down. We actually think that with the return flow and regulation in the river that these 3,200 acres will be able to irrigate and get by. Mr. ROGERS. Where is that spring located on the map ? Mr. DOMINY. It is just below the reservoir on the Virgin. The total cost of the Dixie project is now estimated at $ 42,918,000, which includes $ 239,500 of nonreimbursable investigation costs from the Colorado River development fund and $ 5,500 contributed by the State of Utah. The principal portion of the decrease from that presented in our planning report ($ 44,868,000) results from the elimination of the highway relocation costs ($ 1,904,000). It is now planned that the State of Utah will assume the costs of relocating State Highway 15 at the Virgin City Reservoir site as a State contribution. Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Dominy, if you will excuse me a minute right at that point about the highway, as I understand it, the State of Utah has agreed to absorb or accept the cost involving some $ 1,940,000 with regard to the highway. The question arose a few moments ago about Federal participation in this highway through the Federal purchase of roads. I think the record ought to be clear on it. It is my understanding that if the funds provided by the Federal Bureau of Roads were used for a road of this type, it simply means that other roads in the State that would have been built by those funds simply have to be gone by; is that correct ? Mr. DOMINY. That is exactly right. The chairman has it exactly correct. The State of Utah has road funds allotted to it on the formula established by Congress. If they choose to use those in relocating this road it means that they pass up using them on some other road in the State, and as I understand it they expect to build this wholly from State funds because they are planning a road program of a magnitude, including this item, greater than the Federal aid would contemplate. Mr. UDALL. Will the chairman yield ? Mr. ROGERS. I will be happy to. Mr. UDALL. Would someone indicate on the map where the road is we refer to? Is this the one that goes through the middle of the proposed reservoir ? Mr. DOMINY. Yes, sir. This is the proposed relocation. Mr. PELHAM. The present road runs right through the center, almost, of the proposed reservoir. The relocated road will come around the edge here. Mr. BURTON. Mr. Chairman. Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Burton. |