Comments Following Review of Report on the Pacific Southwest Water Plan

Document: Draft No. 5, Nov 14, 1963 (carbon copy), page 10Interior, while testifying at Senate hearings on such Project on May 7, 1963, stated: "Mention of the problems of the whole area is germane to a discussion of the Dixie project because this is a meritorious unit that can and should be authorized and constructed, whether the authorization is accomplished by special legislation as a separate participating project or as part of a more comprehensive authorizing act that addresses itself to the total problems of the region." (Printed Hearings on S.26 and S.655.) On October 21, 1963, the full Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs reported favorably on the Dixie Project Bill. Included in such bill was provision for financial assistance from a Basin Account. It is reasonable that this State should expect the same departmental support with respect to the Central Arizona Project and S. 1658 as was accorded the Dixie Project. Included as elements in the initial phase of the Pacific Southwest Water Plan are Bridge Canyon Dam and Marble Canyon Dam and power plants on the main stream of the Colorado River, including transmission and appurtenant facilities. As you are aware, the Arizona Power Authority 10Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 24 bit, 3,717,264 byte