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Show C. EDUCATION - INFORMATION The Upper Colorado River Commission has directed its Education and Information efforts toward promoting interstate cooperation, harmony, and united efforts; developing an understanding in other sections of the United States of the problems of the Upper Colorado River Basin; and the creation of a favorable attitude on the part of Congress with respect to the development of the industrial and agricultural resources of the Upper Colorado River Basin. The Commission has continued to cooperate with members of the Congressional Delegations from the Upper Colorado River Basin States and with officials of the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Reclamation in seeking appropriations of funds by the Congress for the construction of the Storage Units and participating projects authorized for construction in Public Law 485, as well as funds for the investigations of additional participating projects that are given priority in planning in the Colorado River Storage Project Act. As part of this cooperation, the Commission's Chief Engineer and Secretary has been in Washington, D. C. at intermittent periods acting as liaison between the Congress and States and various departments of Government, supplying information, arranging and taking part in Congressional hearings, and providing other assistance requested. The Special Committee on Education and Information has met several times during the past year and has studied and recommended activities for the Commission in the catagories of Education and Information. A new brochure was prepared entitled Colorado River Storage Project-A Progress Report-April 1960. Thousands of copies of this pamphlet have been distributed by the office of the Commission and by the various States. The Relief Model of the Upper Colorado River Basin and adjacent areas has been on display in the City-County Building in Provo, Utah. It continues to attract many interested individuals and groups, especially tourists from other parts of the country. (See picture last page of this report). The Commission is producing a motion picture on the recreational benefits of reclamation reservoirs of the Storage Units and participating projects, presently authorized and potential, in the Upper Colorado River Basin. The picture titled The Lakes Made For You is being produced in Salt Lake and will be available for showing about March 1961. 33 |