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<br />IS-Rocky Mountain News <br /> <br />Fri., Feb. 2, 1973, Denver, Colo. <br /> <br />Dominick offers bill <br />cn wilderness area <br /> <br />From the n'a~hinttQn BUT"lJ" OlIn.. RodlY ,"Iounta;n New, <br />WASHINGTON - S<>n, Peter H. Dominick, R-Colo., <br />Thursdny introduced legislation to establish a Flat Tops <br />Wilderness in northwestern Colorado which would in. <br />elude a conlroversial lO,n6-acre tract on the Soulh <br />Fork of the While River, llimit the use of this .....aler if it is <br />A 2()2.OOl).acre Jo1at Tops WiJ- the only practical source lor the <br />deme~s bill was introdu('ffi last limit hte use of this water il it is <br />lo'etr by former Sen. Gordon Al- the only practical soun:e for the <br />Iott, R-Colo., and wa,; approved future development of oil shale, <br />by the Senate,lIJterlor Commit- Uk> WlJdeme~s Act contains the <br />tec. necess(.ry provisions to do that <br />Allott's proposal, ho.....ever. in the future," <br />didn't include the lO,ilG-acre W:\l'ER .\\',\JI_\BU: <br />South Fork tra('l, whi{'h was The WlIdemess Act, according <br />ctJnsidered by environmenlillists to Dominick, 1I11()\\.s the Presi- <br />w conlain some of the lX'!lt dent to authorize the use of <br />wHdeml'Sl> characteristics in the water resources in a \\rildemes.'l <br />enlil'(' area. area it needed in the public <br />I~CI.l'~IO:"i OPI'OSF.IJ interest. <br />Stale offici Lis had urged that He said such USf'S include <br />the trod not he included in the proIipecting for water resource8, <br />wildemes.'l oc-cauSt' White River the establlshment and mainle-- <br />water may be nef'<ied for oil nance of new reservoirs, power <br />shale development. projects, water co~rvation <br />Allott maintained the area was works lI1ld other facilities, <br />excluded because it contained The proposed wildempss Is in <br />]95 acres of p.1tented land, some Routt and While River National <br />of which had twen de\"elofl('d Forest and includes more than <br />with buildings and other struc- 30 high mountain lakes and <br />tures. se\'eral trout streams. <br />11",..'\-*,,,. U..mlnh.k !<.I.ld Sen. F1olo.d Ha.'tkell, [).Colo., a <br />Thur"da). thaI ..tI". !>f'ntim..nt member of the Senate Interior <br />In f,nor "f Indu"inlt tI,l" In-ea Committe<', joined Dominick in <br />I.. 'l\'t'T\\ 1...1111101{, sponsoring the wilderness <br />"And I,-hile I do not wIsh to proposal, <br /> <br />~~\.o(, <br />