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Show DIXIE PROJECT, UTAH H5 Mr. DUNCAN. NO questions. Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Burton ? Mr. BURTON of Utah. No questions. Mr. ROGERS. Mr. White? Mr. WHITE. NO questions. Mr. ROGERS. Thank you very much gentlemen, for your presentation. Our next witness is Mr. William Barlocker, president of the Dixie Project & Development Co., St. George, Utah. STATEMENT OF WILLIAM BARLOCKER, PRESIDENT, DIXIE PROJECT & DEVELOPMENT CO., ST. GEORGE, UTAH Mr. BARLOCKER. Chairman Rogers, it is a pleasure to be here with you, today. May I say, we were very pleased with the subcommittee which came into the area last fall and held the field hearings. I have a prepared statement here today, which I will not take time to read, but I would like to insert it in the record. Mr. ROGERS. Without objection, Mr. Barlocker, your statement will be included in the record as if read in full, and you may discuss such matters as you desire. ( The statement follows:) STATEMENT OF WILLIAM BARLOCKER, PRESIDENT OF THE DIXIE PROJECT & DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, my name is William A. Barlocker, president of the Dixie Project & Development Association. Our association has mothered this project and is primarily responsible for the local and multi- State support which it has received. On behalf of the people of St. George, Utah, the largest community in the Dixie area, and the people of Washington County, where the project will be located, I wish to commend the members of this committee for the part they are playing in helping the people of southern Utah. As you know, the Dixie project has been considered feasible, and has been in the recommendations of the overall planning of the Interior Department for the past 55 years. Just prior to 1941 the first Dixie project report was issued by the Bureau of Reclamation. At that time our water conservancy district was established and we were looking forward, with great expectation, to coming before this committee and having our project approved by the Congress. Unfortunately, the pressures of World War II forced postponement of the project. The Dixie project, as proposed by the Bureau of Reclamation in their report of 1961, proposes that Dixie be a " multiple- purpose^ water- resource development in the Virgin River Basin in southwestern Utah. By regulation of flows of the Virgin River and its tributary, the Santa Clara River, the project would provide supplemental irrigation water to 9,445 acres of presently developed land and a full water supply for 11,615 acres of new land. The city of St. George would be provided with 5,000 acre- feet of water annually for municipal and |