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Show IX. Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects A. APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS BY THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS On January 17, 1963 President Kennedy in his annual budget message to the Congress recommended that Congress appropriate $103,409,000 to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund for fiscal year 1964. On March 28, 1963 the President in a communication to the Speaker of the House of Representatives recommended a supplemental appropriation of $4,000,000 to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund for fiscal year 1963 because contractor earnings on Flaming Gorge and Glen Canyon Dams and Powerplants have been higher than anticipated in 1963. An offsetting decrease of $4,000,000 in the fiscal 1964 budget currently under consideration by the Congress was also recommended. This decrease was made in the budget item for the Loan Program of the Bureau of Reclamation, not in funds for the Colorado River Storage Project. This communication was printed as House Document No. 89, 88th Congress, First Session. After House Doc. No. 89 became effective the 1964 budget items for the Colorado River Storage Project were adjusted, but the total to be appropriated remained the same as it was in the President's January 17th budget. The principal adjustments of budget items consisted of a reduction of $300,000 for Flaming Gorge, a reduction of $3,759,000 for Glen Canyon, an addition of $3,473,118 for transmission lines, and an addition of $400,000 for the Florida Project. On April 30, 1963 the President submitted a proposed amendment to the budget for fiscal year 1964 involving a decrease in the amount of $2,622,000 for the Department of the Interior to defer construction of irrigation facilities of the Seedskadee participating project pending final recommendations of the Wyoming Reclamation Projects Survey Team. The House of Representatives printed this communication as House Document No. 109. Hearings before the Appropriations Committees of the Congress were not held until June 17, 1963. On that date Governor Love, Colorado; Governor Campbell, New Mexico; Governor Clyde, Utah, and Governor Hansen, Wyoming, appeared before the Public Works 41 |
