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Show (e) Glen Canyon-Sigurd-St. George, Utah (f) Four Corners-Albuquerque, New Mexico (g) Curecanti-Midway, Colorado (h) Curecanti-Rangely, Colorado Witnesses representing the Upper Colorado River Commission appeared before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on June 6, 1961. The Subcommittee hearings closed on June 7, but it was not until September 6th that the House Subcommittee reported its bill, H.R. 9076. The House Committee in its Report No. 1125, 87th Congress, First Session explained its actions and recommendations on the appropriations for the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund as follows: "REDUCTIONS IN BUDGET ESTIMATES "Glen Canyon Unit.-In making the reduction below the budget estimate the Committee recommends deletion of the funds programmed for the protection of the Rainbow Bridge National Monument. This action is the same as was taken in connection with the 1961 bill, based on the fact that protection of this bridge would cost an estimated $20,000,000. Testimony to the Committee indicated that there has been no change in the circumstances on the basis of which the action was taken to delete these funds last year. "Access to this National Monument will not be affected by the construction of Glen Canyon Dam and Reservoir, in fact it will be improved to some extent. The geological examination report on the problem indicates clearly that there will be no structural damage to Rainbow Bridge by the reservoir waters beneath it. The Committee continues to see no purpose in undertaking an additional expenditure in the vicinity of $20,000,000 in order to build the complicated structures necessary to provide the protection proposed. "General Reductions.-The budget presentation contemplated a general reduction in new money requirements of $5,000,000 which would accumulate as a result of savings and slippages. The Committee has increased this to $10,000,000 on the basis of actual unobligated balances, existing on June 30, 1961, and which will be available in 1962, and on the fact that much of the new construction contemplated on the projects involved cannot now be undertaken until later in the fiscal year than was contemplated at the time the budget was prepared. "OTHER ACTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS "Recreation and Fish and Wildlife facilities.-A total of $2,700,-000 was budgeted under the National Park Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service for construction of recreational facilities in connection with the Colorado River Storage Project. These funds were denied at the time that the matter was considered in connection with the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1962. This action 41 |