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<br />- 16 - <br /> <br />ment. As examples, how about $40-50 million dollars <br />to pay for improvements to the Walker Wildlife Refuge <br />on the Colorado River between Grand Junction and Fruita, <br />the Loma Wildlife Refuge, and construction of a beautiful <br />riverside park from Grand Junction to Fruita, and $500 <br />million to construct Dominguez Dam and Reservoir on the <br />Gunnison River as a river regulation and recreation project? <br /> <br />9. The use of funds under an increase in <br />the appropriation ceiling for the Colorado River Storage <br />Project for solving the problems of the Strawberry Valley <br />Reclamation project and Great Salt Lake is particularly <br />obnoxious. These items should be in separate legislation. <br /> <br />10. Perhaps the most unreasonable and object- <br />tionab1e facet of the entire exercise involving H.R. 3408 <br />is that it appears to have been formulated and introduced <br />into the U.S. Congress by Utah without consultation and <br />participation of the other three Upper Basin States, Colo- <br />rado, New Mexico and Wyoming. The Colorado River Storage <br />Project does not belong to Utah alone. The Act creating <br />it was the result of very complex and prolonged negotiations <br />among the four States that resulted in an accord on the terms of <br />the CRSP Act and passage of the Bill through cooperative <br />and vigorous efforts by all parties. H.R. 3408 appears to <br />2254 be a major effort by Utah to abrogate previous agreements <br />pertaining to the development and use of the waters of the <br />Upper Colorado River Basin and to extend the CRSP into realms <br />not originally contemplated. <br /> <br />A Bill such as H.R. 3408 should have been discussed and com- <br />piled in an open forum such as the Upper Colorado River Com- <br />mission wherein all parties involved with the Colorado River <br />