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<br />they had not been getting sufficient as- <br />sistance from the state. As a result, we <br />formed a coordinating committee and tried <br />to push these small project programs. We <br />sometimes get lost in the vastness of our <br />major reclamation and flood control programs <br />which involve hundreds of millions of dol- <br />lars. Just as important are the many small <br />projects which should be constructed within <br />the state. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />The Soil Conservation Service has been <br />mOst active in the last seven or eight years <br />in preparing plans for many of the small <br />projects, as well as the Bureau of Reclama- <br />tion under the Small Projects Act. They can <br />do nothing, however, until the local people <br />make application to them. We now have a <br />major active program in the field of small <br />projects. Several projects now under con- <br />struction will cost several million dollars. <br />We call them small projects, but some of <br />them are not really small. <br /> <br />It is most heartening to note now that <br />even in the field of the loan program, the <br />small reclamation projects, we have several <br />applications pending, one project completed, <br />and several applications pending from both <br />eastern and western Colorado. <br /> <br />The Soil Conservation program which <br />SOme years back seemed to be active only in <br />eastern ColOrado has now been extended to <br />western Colorado. As a result, several <br />million dollars worth of projects have <br />already been authorized under Public Law <br />566, some completed and others under con- <br />struction. You can see from the report <br />given by Mr. Anderson that numerous others <br />are now in active planning stages, particu- <br />larly in northeastern Colorado near Fort <br />Collins east to the state line. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />This has been one of the most rewarding <br />