Letter Concerning Marble and Bridge Canyon Dams

Letter: To Mr Svendsen, Draft, 1965 (carbon copy), page 55 National Parks or Monuments. In conformance with this prohibition, the Bureau of Reclamation budget, as it was submitted to Congress for a number of years, contained a request for funds to build necessary protective works. These requests were always rejected by the Congress which evidently believed it would be preferable to let high water from Lake Powell back up into the gulch under the Rainbow Bridge, than to deface the natural scenery by building protective works which were estimated to cost $25,000,000. The reservoir water does not reach and in no way mars the Rainbow Bridge. One Congress cannot bind another and thus Congress rescinded its own action by refusing to appropriate funds for the protective works. The same situation can occur in reverse today if the present Congress ignores the reservation for Reclamation development placed in the Grand Canyon Authorization Act by the 66th Congress in 1919. However, I hope this does not happen because it would well sound the death knell to hopes and expectations of the people of the Pacific Southwest to fully utilize the resources of the Colorado River. Again let me express my appreciation for the open-minded, fact seeking toneEpson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 2,757,168 byte