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- ... -6- ~ ,. . ~ facilities on federal water projects and to pay all of the cost of maintenance and operation is "the worst. legislation ever enacted." "The intent of the law is great, but the states do not have the financial capabilities to take part in the program, and the entire Wildlife Division budget could be wiped out by full participation in the cost sharing plan. "It would be like maintaining an outhouse with a gold knob on the door," he said. Barrows called for early repeal of the Act. Edward C. Crafts, Washington, D. C., former chief of the U. S. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, praised Congressman Wayne Aspinall for his conservation record in Congress and said that Aspinall is being unfairly maligned by far-out preservationists who have been grossly unfair in - - failing to give him credit for work he has done in the natural resource field. ITEMS IN BRIEF Felix L. Sparks, director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, reports that the U.S. House and Senate have taken final action on the Public Works Appropriation bill for fiscal year 1973. The bills now go to conference committee to reconcile differences. Sparks reports that House action appropriated $69,396,000 for water development projects in Colorado and Senate action appropriated $71,381,000. The biggest item in the appropriation was in excess of $38 million for the Fryingpan- Arkansas Project. Funds were also included for Animas-La Plata, Dallas Creek, Dolores, San Miguel, West Divide, Narrows, Savery-Pot Hook, and other ongoing projects. Sparks credited Colorado's Senator Allott in obtaining higher appropriations for Colorado which represent an all-time high. ***** Ival V. Goslin, executive director of the Upper Colorado River Commission, in a July 12, 1972 Information Memorandum, advises that the Environmental Defense Fund, Inc., has brought suit in the U. S. District Court, District of Columbia, #1005-72, against the National Water Re- sources Council, et al, seeking to destroy the 1968 regulation which established "Standards for Plan Formulation and Evaluation" for water resource projects. Goslin said "the real motive for the lawsuit seems to be to prevent all water resource development by forcing the Federal ?overnment to use the 'opportunity cost of money' as t,he basis for ~nterest rates used in project evaluation, which would be-much more restrictive than the regulations of the Water Resources Council."