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Show locality, nevertheless to carry their share of the burden of securing authorization of the entire initial stage. As an illustration of this spirit of cooperation and of this determination, mention ought to be made particularly, but without excluding others, of the efforts of individuals and groups in and about Vernal, Utah. Moving pictures and slides of the Green and Yampa river areas, which they have exhibited with appropriate narrative on more than one occasion before highly influential groups, will, no doubt, have telling effect in the long run. These independent, but related, activities of individual groups become of increasing importance in the light of evidence that officials of the National Parks Association have been calling upon members of the Congress to urge against the authorization of the Echo Park dam. The activities of the group in question perfectly complement the message carried in a leaflet distributed by the Commission during the past year, which leaflet is entitled "Echo Park Dam-Fact and Fiction." All members of the Congress from the Upper Basin States have been supplied with copies of the draft of bill to authorize the initial stage of the Colorado River Storage project and participating projects. They have been urged to act as a unit with respect to the same and it has been represented to them by resolution unanimously adopted that, while the judgment of the Commission is that introduction of the bill should await transmittal to the Congress of the Interior Department's report on the Colorado River Storage project and participating projects, they are nevertheless urged to introduce it at an earlier date if, in their combined judgment, such earlier introduction is deemed wise. Extremely disappointing delays have marked the treatment accorded transmittal to the Congress of the report in question. Comments on the report, following its circularization in accordance with the terms of Section 1 of the Act of December 22, 1944 (the Flood Control Act of 1944) were made months ago. A hearing on certain conservation aspects of one of the proposed reservoirs was held months ago. A decision following careful review of the evidence presented at such hearing was made months ago. Reasons heretofore adduced for withholding the report in question are now lacking in merit if, indeed, they may be deemed to have been meritorious at any time. Consistent efforts so far made on the part of the Commission to secure transmittal of the report to the Bureau of the Budget have resulted only in eliciting wholly unsatisfactory excuses for further delay. Nor can it be claimed that the Commission has been successful, .although it has bent every effort in that direction, in achieving wholehearted and unified action from all quarters looking to the release of such report. In all of these connections, it may __7__ |