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<br />Project Authorizations <br /> <br />Feasibility reports on four active potential Reclamation projects <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />are now before your committee for consideration. These are the North <br /> <br />I <br />. <br /> <br />Loup division and the O'Neill unit of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin <br /> <br />program, both in Nebraska; the Closed Basin division of the San Luis <br /> <br />Valley project in Colorado and the Salmon Falls division, Upper Snake <br /> <br />River project in Idaho. <br /> <br />We expect to submit reports on the Cosumnes River division, <br /> <br />Central Valley project, California. and the Polecat Bench area, <br /> <br />Shoshone Extension unit, Wyoming, within the next two or three <br /> <br />months. Other reports which may be submitted in this first sea- <br /> <br />sion of the Ninety-Second Congress are the Brantley project, <br /> <br />New Mexico, the Monmouth Dallas division of the Willamette <br /> <br />River project in Oregon, the Pollock-Herreid unit of the Pick- <br /> <br />Sloan Missouri Basin program in South Dakota and the Peripheral <br /> <br />project and the State Water Plan in California <br /> <br />~ <br />~ <br />~ <br /> <br />Canal unit, a very necessary addition to the Central Valley <br /> <br />160-acre Limitation <br /> <br />There is need for statutory restatement, clarification and <br /> <br />modernization of the acreage limitation provisions of Reclamation <br /> <br />law. We are seeking, in a draft of omnibus legislation, to recog- <br /> <br />nize present day farming requirements and technology, retain the <br /> <br />traditional concept of viable owner-operated, family-farming <br /> <br />enterprises and assure the security of remiburseable Federal <br /> <br />funds. At the same time) constraints must be maintained agai~st <br /> <br />accrual of windfall benefits by large land owners. <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br />~ I <br />