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Show - Chairman, Sub-Committee on Appropriations, Interior Committee, Sidney Yates. Gunn McKay is second in line on this Committee. It is through McKay's efforts that the Bureau obtains so much of its monies. We need to keep track of monies dispensed and Bureau of Reclamation budget authorizations. Although I sent Yates material the same time as Giamo, I have had no response from Yates. Is this significant? How will Yates respond to the Carter budget proposal? - Chairman, Senate Committee on the Budget, Edmund Muskie Haven't contacted him yet. - Senate Committees on Budget and Public Works, and Subcommittees appear to me to be chaired by southerners who support Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation projects. So we'll have to reach members who are sympathetic. Note: Brent Blackwelder, Environmental Policy Center, who is the lead Conservation Group on water projects, feels it is most important thai' CRCUP try to get Utah people to Washington the week of April 2 - IP to testify at budget hearings. CRCUP should try to make this possible. The two issues which are most Important in Washington to deal with are those of costs and State water management alternatives. I asked both Pro-fessor Power and Gerry Kinghorn if they could go and make statements. Consider how something can be worked out, either with these people or others. Oral testimony would visibly offset what Utah's Congressional delegations present to make CUP development "necessary" - Senator Proxmire, on Interior -*- on Committees relevant to CUP issues. For response from him see enclosed letter. ~ Senator Nelson - to be contacted. - Congressman Kastenmeier, Wis., Interior Committee - Senators Jackson and Udall - - to be contacted on issues of project re-authorization I have also supplied background on all aspects of CUP development to five national environmental groups having major concerns in water development projects. - Environmental Policy Center, Washington, Brent Blackwelder EPC has taken the lead among environmental groups on water developments. EPC will provide ongoing water project development information to the President. EPC has an intern now working on CUP issues. I have co-ordinated Utah CUP actions with EPC on Washington actions. Brent is a brilliant source of guidance in the Washington political maze! 202-547-6500, 317 Pennsylvania Av., S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003. Keep EPC informed of Utah activity and developments. Send me a copy of what you send them. - National Wildlife Federation, Oliver Houck, 1412 l6th St. N.W., Washington, D.C, 20036, 202-797-6800. It's Director, Thomas Kimball was out looking at Rock Creek last summer. He asked fishermen there why they weren't getting after their Congressmen to protect this outstanding river drainage! Here's your cue! - Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense Fund. Both groups have top resource and legal specialists. Both groups are involved in water development issues. - Sierra Club Conservation Chairman, Brian Beard, Logan. Brian has forwarded to me a continual stream of CUP articles and developments. He is continually alert to CUP doings. Although I was present at the July 19, 1978 meeting with the Sierra Club and the BuRec, when the Club requested that the BuRec. keep us better informed, I__don't believe CRCUP is being provided the material the Sierra Club is. This should be looked into. The Bureau works for us - remember? We have a right to be in on planning. |
