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Show President Eisenhower, in his Budget Message to the 2d Session of the 84th Congress in January 1956, recommended an appropriation of $8,000,000 for the Colorado River Storage Project when the authorizing legislation was approved by Congress. Immediately after the President approved the Act on April 11, 1956, Members of Congress went to work in an effort to get an appropriation of funds to initiate project construction. After hearings held before the Public Works Subcommittee, the House Appropriations Committee recommended $3,155,000 for the Colorado River Storage Project. When this recommendation reached the floor of the House, the House .agreed to an amendment which boosted the total to $6,000,000. The Senate Committee on Appropriations recommended $13,000000 as an initial appropriation. After a conference between the House and Senate Committee Members, the appropriation was finally fixed at $13,000,000 for the 1957 fiscal year, of which $1,300,000 were earmarked for construction of Flaming Gorge Dam and Reservoir, $9,325,000 for Glen Canyon Dam and Reservoir, and $800,000 for Navajo Dam, with the participating projects receiving $1,575,000. The Commission published a well-illustrated brochure entitled frThe Colorado River Storage Project" and a pamphlet On the same subject, both of which have been widely distributed throughout the United States. Both of these publications are based upon Public Law 485, and explain the major features which are to be constructed in the initial phase of the Upper Colorado River development. The Relief Model of the Upper Colorado River Basin, which was constructed by the Commission with the permission of and in cooperation with the Babson Institute of Business Administration at Babson Park, Massachusetts, has been prominently displayed at such places as the Uintah Basin Industrial Convention at Roosevelt, Utah; the Conference of the Utah Committee on Industrial and Employment Planning at Salt Lake City, Utah; in the State Capitol at Salt Lake City, Utah; at the National Reclamation Association Convention at Salt Lake City, Utah; and in the State Capitol at Cheyenne, Wyoming. The Commission's film, teA Project for People", which describes the Colorado River Storage Project and portrays the benefits to be derived from the development of water, power and other natural resources, has been loaned for showings to civic organizations and other interested parties from coast to coast. -11- |
