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<br />- 9 - <br /> <br />4. The life of the Commission is not likely <br />to expire in 1995, but when the Secretary determines the <br />Central Utah Project to be substantially complete which <br />would be 10 or 20 or more years from now. This project <br />was authorized for construction in 1956, thirty-two years <br />ago, and it is a long way from completed now. <br /> <br />5. Section 8 (c) (2) of H.R. 3408 would auth- <br />orize placing $5,000,000 per year into a conservation <br />account created in Section 8 until the project is complete. <br />It is questionable whether the Federal government should <br />deposit such a sum each year that would be nonreimbursable <br />under section 8 of the CRSP Act when the term of deposition <br />may be of indeterminate length. <br /> <br />6. It also appears that a lot of the work of the <br />Commission would be duplicative of work already accomplished <br />by the Bureau of Reclamation during the detailed planning of <br />the Central Utah Project. <br /> <br />Section 8 of H.R. 3408 establishes a Central Utah Project <br />Mitigation and Conservation Account. In addition to the $5,000,000 <br />that would be deposited in this account described above, the <br />Central Utah District would deposit $35,000,000, but that <br />$35,000,000 would be deposited there and returned to the District <br />from power revenues. Also, to be deposited in the account would <br />be (a) amounts not obligated or expended after completion of a <br />construction project; (b) any money appropriated for fish and wild- <br />life that is not used before the Commission is terminated; lc) all <br />funds annually appropriated to the Commission, and (d) all interest <br />earned on money in the account until the Commission terminates. <br />The Commission would administer and expend all sums deposited in <br />the account in (a), (b), (c), and (d) above. <br /> <br />2261 <br />