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Show THE IDES OF MARCH 115 prompt submission of such legislative suggestions, and, accordingly, we are forwarding herewith copies of a draft bill incorporating our recommendations without the further delay which would be occasioned by the preparation of a detailed report on legislation pending before your committee." So up to the Senate went the bill that the administra- tion wanted Congress to pass. It corrected the nine matters in which the Senate bill differed from the ideas of the President, and it left so many doors open that Rep. Hosmer was moved to remark that "an economic typhoon could blow through it from any direction." The Administration bill called for two major power dams, at Glen Canyon and Echo Park, and eleven par- ticipating projects. These were: Central Utah (initial phase), Emery County, Florida, Hammond, La Barge, Lyman, Paonia, Pine River Extension, Seedskadee, Silt and Smith Fork. The bill also: (a) Declared it was the intent of Congress to construct more dams and participating pro- jects in the Upper Basin in the future, (b) Sanctioned a 100 year pay-out period, (c) Established a Colorado River Basin Fund into which all appropriations from Congress would be funneled and could be spent by the Secretary of Interior without further authorization, (d) Authorized a total appropriation of federal funds for the project of $950,000,000. The Administration's bill was not welcomed with open arms by a number of Upper Basin senators. It set an appropriation limit approximately $500 million less than the costs estimated in S. 1555. It omitted the gigantic Navajo Project and the San Juan-Chama Project, and a statement made by Senator Anderson to |