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Show 60 DIXIE PROJECT, UTAH Enclosed are statements concerning estimated personnel and other requirements for the project as required by Public Law 801, 84th Congress. The Bureau of the Budget has advised that there is no objection to the presentation of this report from the standpoint of the administration's program. Sincerely yours, D. OTIS BEASLET, Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Dixie project, Utah ( estimated additional man- years of civilian employment and expenditures for the first 5 years of proposed new or expanded programs, as required by Public Law 801, 84th Cong.) 1st year 2d year 3d year 4th year 5th year Estimated additional man- years of civilian employment: Administrative services: 2 5 4 10 5 18 5 18 5 16 Total administrative services . 7 14 23 23 21 Substantive ( program): 8 15 12 24 22 55 24 53 21 40 23 36 77 77 61 Total estimated additional man- years of civilian employment 30 50 100 100 82 Estimated additional expenditures: $ 200,000 164,000 $ 325,000 4,875,000 $ 648,000 13,532,000 $ 662,000 13,948,000 $ 526,000 7,974,000 Total estimated additional expenditures. 364,000 5,200,000 14,180,000 14,610,000 8,500,000 Mr. ROGERS. The Chair at this time will recognize the gentleman from Utah, Mr. Burton, for a statement if he desires. Mr. BURTON. Mr. Chairman, I have a prepared statement I will not take the time to read but I would like to ask unanimous consent that it be inserted in the record at this point. Mr. ROGERS. Without objection, it is so ordered, and the statement will be included in the record the same as if read in full. ( The statement follows:) STATEMENT OP REPRESENTATIVE LAURENCE J. BURTON, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS PROM THE STATE OLF UTAH Mr. BURTON. Mr. Chairman, fellow members of the Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation, I am proud to appear before you today in support of what I have long considered one of the most significant and important reclamation projects proposed for the State of Utah. There will appear before you today experts on the engineering and financing of this project, and on its feasibility. I shall not attempt to go into these matters which are properly left to them, but shall take you with me, if you will, into some of the background of this project and the people who settled and developed Dixie. They were not ordinary people. They had been sent to this southwestern part of the area which was to become known as the Territory or State of Deseret, and later the State of Utah, by Brigham Young, the great colonizer. He recognized the importance of settling this area. It was known to him from reports of Fremont who used the |
