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<br />...__-......-wl .......001. .....w..,~....Q.o;;J.o;;J. <br /> <br />.lU'l:JFIIU-;.c~-'---CIIC11"'F <br /> <br />!",,,,,,,-,c 4i:b'''''' <br /> <br />." <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />I I <br />"News Release <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />For Immediate Release <br />Thursday, July 10, 1997 <br /> <br />Contact: Christian Sinderman <br />20'2/ 546-8500 x 114 <br /> <br />Taxpayer Advocates and Legislators Hail Animas La Plata Death <br />CritUs rail against spending tarpayer dollars on undefined new plan <br /> <br />W ASlrnGTON,p"C.- Following Tuesday's death of the Animas La Plata water project, <br />_, Congressional leaders and representatives from the coalition fighting the plan joined today to <br />express concerns about funding the undefined new plan outlined by proponenrs" The withdrawal <br />of,the original ALP without an authorized alternative has critics concerned thar Congress will <br />move to appropriate funds for a project that no longer existS" The new proposal has yet to be <br />subjected to scrutiny by Congress, the Deparonent of Inrerior, or other inreresred parties. <br /> <br />, "Just as you test drive a car before you make a down payment, you don't begin paying for a new <br />water project Without first looking ar the blueprints,>> said Jill Laneelot, Legislative Director of <br />Taxpayers for Co=on Sense" KCongress should deny any request for funding until a genuine <br />solution. C3Il be reached. Throwing money ar an unauthorized plan is simply ludicrous." , <br /> <br />Since outlines of the new plan maintain the same costly structural elements that derailed the <br />original proposal, Lancelot believes thar the revisions are little qlore than window dressing on <br />the old proposal. <br /> <br />'''The old ALP was a dinosaur-pure Jurassic po~ This ~ew plan is like one of the monsters in <br />the movie-:-a taxpayer tyranosaur resurrected from the same plans as the old, failed design." said <br />Lancelot" <br /> <br />Despite claims that the new plan is scaled back, critics noted that the proposed reservoir is a full <br />92% the size of the originaL Furthermore, proponents are askillg for unprecedented new <br />subsidies for municipal water development. ' <br /> <br />"This new proposal outlines a new class of federal subsidies while maintaining the wasteful <br />elements of the original project," said Lancelol. "Proponents want to pump the treasury"as' well <br />as the river, forcing federal taxpayers to subsidize urban sprawL" , <br /> <br />Today's press conference also featured the release 'of a House '~ Colleague" letter authored <br />by Representatives Thomas Petri (R-WI) and Peter DeFazio (D-OR). With House 3!1d Senare <br />committee vores on ALP funding scheduled within the next week. fiftY member of Congress ' <br />signed the letter, which opposes new funding for ALP in 1998.. <br />=more= <br />