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<br />O\l~S~4 <br />having held increasingly responsible engineering positions in <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />the Bureau of Reclamation for a period of about 15 years and <br />served for two years as engineering consultant to the Committee <br />on Interior and Insular Affairs. For the past seven years he <br />has been Assistant General Manager of Sacramento Municipal Utility <br />District, a publicly owned electric power agency serving about <br />500,000 people in a 650 square-mile area. <br /> <br />* * * <br /> <br />Governor Brown's budget for 1961-6~ now under considera- <br />tion by the Legislature, proposes the appropriation of $1,156,965 <br />to the Department of Water Resources to be expended on a matching <br />basis for work in cooperation with the Federal Government. The <br />program includes Yuba River debris control; mapping; stream gaging; <br />irrigation and forest management research; ground water, subsidence <br />and specific yield studies; and beach erosion, sediment, and water <br />quality investigations. An additional appropriation of $2,779,719 <br />is proposed for direct expenditure by the department on its basic <br />data program, much of which supplements the work of the cooperative <br /> <br />program. <br /> <br />The proposed bUdget also includes $179,947 for watershed <br />planning by the Division of Soil Conservation in the Department of <br />Natural Resources in connection with Public Law 566 projects. <br />This prOVides funds for two teams to supplement the work of the <br />Soil Conservation Service in preparation of watershed work plans. <br /> <br />* * * <br /> <br />On February 2, 1961, the California Water Commission <br />conducted a publiC hearing on a report by the Regional Director <br />of the Bureau of Reclamation on the Yolo-Zamora Unit of the <br /> <br />-2- <br /> <br />~ ;!t1 <br />1. "u,;&,lllli <br />