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001737 -- --... - . - RECLAMATION REPORT Narrows Dam Gets 'Clean Bill of Health' ) . I I FROM PAGE 1 Engineers works finally were turned down for continued lurw:ling. Before the ~arrows was slalled for re- study. some $]2 million had oc.e-n request. ed for current spending. Haskell said he intended to ask for about $3.5 million in a new appropriation "depending on the nature and the amount of work the Bureau of Reclamation can complete," sanrlhiIJ cranes" in a migratory pattern do~nstream. -FinaJJy. the report said. ";\ ground- water recharge alternative 10 the Sar. rows unit Is not economically feasible.-" T H J.; F,H"QRABLE report issued Wednesday appeared to lea\'e unanswered several of the complaints raised against the dam lasf year by environmentalists and the Carter administration. The report didn't touch on the prospeet of the "dislocation" of &12 residents of the area, the COmplaint that 40 "hiStorieal . and archaeological sites would be de. stroyed" or that 15,000 acres of "agrlcul. tural and wildlife laods would be inundat- ed" and 15 miles of "free-flowing river would be lost." A spokesman lor the Interior Dt>part- ment said that those and "other matters" would have to be resoh-ec1 by Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus and his aides before the department makes a final ree- f ommendation to President Carter. A FL~AL Whjte House hurdle-the Of- fice of ~tanagement and Budget-sti"1l would have to be cleared if spending on the Narrows Unit Is to be resumed, the I aide said. The D:\fB and environmentalists within I I the Carter administration received the major blame--or credit-last year for the "hit list" attack on BUreau of Reelama. I tion and Corps of Engineers water proj. e<:ts. . .-\1 one stage, the number of projects on I ~ the Carwr "hit /ist" numbered 30, all of I tlIem rondemned by the president as une('Onom!cal, unsafe or threats to the en- vironment. I.~ TilE Fl.'o'AL "oompromise" accept_, led by Carter-a compromise in which members of the Senate Appropriations I Commiltee appnwed projects in their own areas and discarded others---only three reclamation ProjeclS and five Corps of - . - - - lContinurd from pagl" I) A roalition or ennroomt'nlal/;iroups includlfl~ lhe Sil"rra Club. Auduhon Socil'I\", Ell\"ironffil'n. lal Dt-ll"nse Fund. WiI&>lTN.'SS sOCieh and otht.rs published a tt'port a )t'ar ago on .'Dl"3Stt-rs in Wall"r Dl',.elopmt'nl" which indudftl a page 00 Xarrows In addition 10 displat:t'nwnt d farm families. Interior gives go-ahead to Narrows Dam Ilalards for wiJd!ift> and depletion of sttt'arn flow lhE>en\'ironmt'1l1al report said the ~arrO\lo-ssltt' I; poll'nliall). dangerous bec-aUS(' ol st'{'page prob- lems and geologic mslabilil)". Tht> Ollorado DepartlTlf'Ol 0{ ~aturaJ fu-. ~rav(ntheprojl'ct,andGo\. Drl.l...3mm andSt>n GaryHart.f).f'nln ~",...,...,,~c ,.