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<br />10 <br /> <br />the San Luis Valley p~oJect. !he oont~actc~s made better <br />progress than was expected on the Platora Dam last fall. !h18 <br />vas included in the first deficiency b1ll and approved by the <br />Senate but excluded by the House. It 18 112 the second bill. <br />I have a. lette~ from the Bureau of Reclamation and one f~om <br />. Congressman Marsalis, and it is believed that there 1s no <br />question now but what that Will be approved in the second dew <br />flciency bill. <br />..., !rhen there was allocated by the Bureau' of Reclamation <br />forrehab1l1tat1on and betterment work $700,(1)00 for the Grand <br />Valley proJect ,near Grand Junction. As a matter of fact, it. <br />was $730,000 and they didn't need the $30,000, and it is being <br />returned. The Bureau plans for a similar allocation for next <br />year of $390,000 for the Grand Valley project for further re- <br />hab1litation and betterment work. <br />Including all those appropriations approved or expected <br />to be approved, 1t makes a total appropriation for water devel- <br />opment 1n Colorado of $25,808,600, subject to that cut of ten <br />percent, lfthe ~en per cent cut is approved by the Senate. <br />The feeling 1n Washington 18 that that cut 11'111 not be sus- <br />tained in the Senate, but nobody knows. <br />So'far as the Big Thompson and the Paonla and the San <br />Luis Valley projects are cQftcerned, the House appropriated the <br />full amoant recommended by the President except that the House <br />