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<br />Maybe he will have something to add to what <br />I have to say. <br /> <br />One of the purposes of my going to Wash- <br />ington about two weeks ago was to determine <br />when hearings could be held in the House of <br />Representatives on the Fryingpan-Arkansas <br />Project and what it's status was as far as <br />the Department of the Interior and the Con- <br />gress were concerned. You have perhaps seen <br />some conflicting reports issued by various <br />members of the Department of the Interior <br />concerning the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. <br />Mr. Boustead of the Southeastern District <br />accompanied me on that trip. We were able <br />to ascertain that the Fryingpan-Arkansas is <br />one of the four projects now being given prior- <br />ity by the Interior and Insular Affairs Com- <br />mittee of the House of Representatives - the <br />four projects being the Fryingpan-Arkansas <br />Project, the Burns Project in Idaho, the San <br />Juan-Chama and Navajo Irrigation Projects in <br />New Mexico and the Garrison Project in North <br />Dakota. Those projects have the first prior- <br />ity out of a great number of projects which <br />are now pending in the House of Representa- <br />tives. Hearings on all those projects will <br />be scheduled at a very early date. We were <br />given a tentative date of hearings in the <br />House of Representatives on the Fryingpan- <br />Arkansas Project of late March or early April. <br />The time is adequate, we believe, to see that <br />the project eventually gets on the floor of <br />the House during this session of Congress. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />As far as we were able to determine, <br />there ~ ~ maior obstacles now facing the <br />Fryingpan-Arkansas Project and we have every <br />reason to believe that it will move through <br />the congress this session and be approved by <br />the President. No one, of course, can pre- <br />dict what will happen in the United States <br />Congress, but there is no question that at <br />this time the Fryingpan-Arkansas is in a far <br />better position than it has ever been through- <br />out its history. The Bureau of Reclamation <br />has completed its analysis of the report and <br /> <br />I <br />